The Mar del Plata Golf Club was born in the dunes of Playa Grande at the end of the 19th century, being one of the first golf clubs in Argentina. Its founders were some British directors of the then Southern Railway, who began to practice the sport in the open fields south of the city of Mar del Plata, around the year 1890.

In 1896 the first nine holes were drawn, although in 1899 it was commissioned to Juan Dentone, the first golf course builder in the country and considered the father of Argentine golf professionals, the reconstruction of those holes.

On January 17, 1900, the Mar del Plata Golf Club was founded. In those years, the sandy dunes where the game was played adjoined the beach and the sea, and there sand was extracted for the bunkers, and neither the port nor the Naval Base existed yet. The second nine holes were inaugurated in 1915 and since 1900 there is a six-hole small court for the learning of minors that was proposed by the then Captain TT Watson "so that the children would know how and where their parents had fun."