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On an evening in 1920, Turin Golf Club came to life at a restaurant on Via Nizza.  It was the idea of eleven people: Emilio Belgrano, Eugenio Beria di Argentine, Caberto and Franz Conelli, Filippo and Maria Corti, Filiberto Denina, Ado and Addy Kind, Emilio Poli and Guido Vitale.

They were tough years.  The wounds of the war were still open, but the determination and will to start over were big in the minds of these ideators.

So they found the first land where they could play in Southern Canavese, between Lombardore and San Maurizio, in a most classic moorland. Although they had to find the time and room between military exercises, the Club joined Italian Golf Fedaration in 1924.

Three years later, a new course was laid at the hippodrome, at the trotter of Mirafiori. Nine holes, which were dispersed among horse tracks.

Despite numerous problems, a very important association was made (golf and horses), which led to the construction of nine more holes on the hillside of Maddalena. The real field finally arrived in 1956, when the famous “La Mandria” park was built. John Morrison created the first eighteen holes and in the years that followed, the field expanded to have twenty seven holes and later the current thirty six holes, thanks to the projects by Studio Harris and architects Marco Croze and Graham Cooke.


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Countless National and International Championships were held at the field.  Not to mention the Presidents who contributed to its development. Filippo di Sambuy, Edoardo Agnelli, Theo Rossi di Montelera, Napoleone Rossi di Montelera, Giovanni Nasi, Alberto Brignone, Sergio Pininfarina and the current president Lorenzo Silva.

 

 

 

 

 

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The politics of tradition and attention entrusted in the activities of the youth, pursued by the presidents Sergio Pininfarina and Lorenzo Silva, has achieved triumphant results with World Cup and Ryder Cup victories by natural talents, such as dear and in-house champion Edoardo and Francesco Molinari brothers.  Francesco, called Chicco by his fans, was promoted to professional category in 2004 following a brilliant amateur career and he was the first Italian who won the Open d’Italia in 2006 26 years later.  In 2010, he participated in Ryder Club, called by captain Colin Montgomerie to participate in the victorious European Team.  He was also awarded WGC-HSB CHAMPIONS.  In 2005, Edoardo became the first Italian and the first European golfer who won the US Amateur Championship. He has been a professional since 2006 and has won the order of merit of Challenge tour and World Cup with his brother Chicco in 2009.  He had great success at the European Tour in 2010 and won the Johnnie Walker Championship in Gleneagles and  The Barclays Scottish Open.  After these successes, he was called by the European Team who won the Ryder Cup.