48 “My style of life and his were not that similar – he couldn’t really understand me going out and having a great time. I used to listen to him a lot; he was very informative and spent a lot of time explaining things. He was a very good teacher. Apart from the different lifestyles, we got on very well.” Also, in the very early stages of his career, Peter built the Rhodos Golf Club course next to Glyfada. “At that time, the Greek government was trying to encourage golf to promote tourism,” says Peter. “The government was quite authoritarian, and so a few golf courses were built. Later, it was more democratic and harder to get anything done!” For the next two decades, Peter built courses all over Europe – more in Germany than anywhere else – until in the early 1990s things began to change. The Karachi Golf Club, in Pakistan’s largest city, was founded as an affiliate of the Sindh Club in 1888 and registered as an independent club in 1891. There were a number of golf clubs in British India in the 19th century; the oldest, Royal Calcutta, was founded in 1829, and is the oldest club in the world outside the UK. The Karachi club moved to its present site in 1953, six years after Pakistan gained its independence; but its course was purely sand, with no grass. From 1985, the club sought to change its course to a grass one. In 1991, Harradine was commissioned to design a new course for the club and change the existing layout from 18 to 27 holes, which was completed the following year. And now, more than 30 years later, the architect is back in Pakistan, building a new course as “ Harradine’s first projects in the Gulf were the Doha Golf Club in Qatar and the Abu Dhabi Golf Club, both of which were the first grass courses in their respective emirates” Caption PETER HARRADINE Photo: Harradine Golf Peter on site in Montechiarello, Italy, with long-time construction supervisor Arne van Amerongen
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