In 1960 the Asiago Tourist Board contacted a number of large European companies with the aim of acquiring elements to allow our resort to be included in the grand international circuit. Wagons Lits in Brussels, which had just merged with Cook's of London, sent an inspector who, after having visited the area and the tourist facilities of Asiago and the Plateau, indicated the three hinge points which, in her opinion, were essential for development on an international scale: the building of a large top-category hotel, the enhancement of Asiago Airport, the only one in the Italian Alps, and the Golf Course which she believed would be easy to construct because “the Plateau, with its conformation, could be one immense Golf Course”.
With stubborn determination, overcoming many difficulties, work was begun on the three facilities amongst the scepticism and hostility of many of our townspeople. For the golf course the British studio of Harris & Cotton was selected which sent one of its owners to choose the site and study the project. That was in 1961, but it was not until 1963 that the land was made available.
Only then did the Tourist Board tackle the financial problem which was not an easy one: against an expected expense of 50 million Lire, the Board had a budget of only half a million Lire a year for the facilities. Once this obstacle too had been overcome with great difficulties, the first planting work began in 1965; more than ten thousand young fir, larch and beech trees were planted next to the large wood that already existed. In the meantime thirty workmen were engaged in constructing the golf course and the club house.

Play on the course began in 1967 and the Asiago Golf Club was founded, with thirty members. In 1968 the nine-hole course was registered with the Italian Golf Federation and the first non-local players began to arrive: they all said that the Asiago course was one of the finest, not only in Italy but in Europe too. However the great turning point came under the chairman Gemmo, when in 1990 the course was redesigned and enlarged to 18 holes by the internationally famous architect Harradine. Today there are no more doubts, the Asiago Golf Club, with the new guest quarters and accessory services, can compete with the finest mountain courses in Europe.