For more than 50 years, Eldorado Polo Club has been blending the allure of the 1,000 year old game of polo with the glamour of Los Angeles and Palm Springs, and mixing in a lot of cowboy for good measure. The result is a unique amalgam of old and new, tradition and innovation, champagne and long-neck Coronas, that has come to be known as polo, desert style.
Known from the first as an informal, player's club, Eldorado attracted the country's best sportsmen, and players such as Bill Gilmore and Willie Tevis, from California. In the mid-1960's, en route from Los Angeles to his home in Texas, Carlton Beal, a dedicated polo player, stopped by Eldorado to see Veen, his old friend and teammate on the victorious 1952 U.S. Open team. Beal liked what he saw and added his support to the fledgling club. (continue reading...)
