The Eldorado Polo Club a Golden Stop in the California Desert

a beautiful and mythical South American city of gold sought after almost a century, invaders from Pizarro Cortez. This name is unique for a club that is now known as the Eldorado Polo Club. Located in the hot, flat desert Coachella Valley lies between the small towns of La Quinta and Indio, California, snuggled against the San Jacinto Mountains. Some call it a tropical paradise. Another oasis in the desert.

Polo come to America at the turn of the 20th century and millennium years sport took root in America. In the West first became popular in the area of ​​San Diego, where he played on the island Coronado.Pustinja has become a popular destination for many famous Hollywood celebrities and others at the beginning 20 years earlier, when it is known that only a few that La Quinta has become popular in their own right.

Until the early 1950s Polo in Palm Springs began to attract the interest of half the players from all over the country. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, with whom my mother and I had the honor and pleasure to share the moment with him and Mrs. Eisenhower in his limousine, it is truly brought fame and attention to the desert.

the original fields were located close to Palm Springs, near the site of today's Palm Springs International Airport. Then, due to urban sprawl and the rising value of the Club was forced to move to the next stop is Palm Desert, and from there to the third and current location in La Quinta, where I visited a second time. Once again, because the hunger for development and also rising property values ​​that surround the place Palm Desert, now Vintage Club, has happened twice before, which is typical for any activity that requires a large amount of land and attracts a lot of people and interests.

on the occasion of my visit was the 1986 U.S. Open Polo Tournament hosted by the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, who attended the ceremony, played with courage and host the gala as a tribute to the magnificent progress Eldorado Polo Club and the U.S. Open like this done a few times after that. More recently, Prince Harry, Harry Wales as he knows that his special forces comrades in the Royal Maines and the third in line for the throne of England, hosted and played in a charity tournament in klubu.Klub plays host to many additional charitable not the least of which is the College of the Desert located in Palm Desert for a club that raises tens of thousands of dollars a year. Perhaps the most well known of these charities is the Barbara Sinatra Skins Polo Game, which supports charities for abused and neglected children.

is my most recent visit to the polo fields, which incidentally is only two hours drive from Los Angeles, a half hour from Palm Springs, was a surprise. On my first visit to the club as a child there were only two courts and a few players. Now, as the capital of the Peoples of winter polo, because of significant time, twelve fields, ten-owned club and two leased from the nearby Empire Polo Club, and during my visit was twenty-nine teams play consecutively in three formats, a low grade, medium and high-scoring event with an eclectic group of players, this is indeed the "players" club, as they were from the beginning, and it includes all family members including children. All in all my recent visit to the California desert intensified my interest, appreciation and love "paradise in the wilderness," and I know that you and whether you're playing or watching.