Pier Luigi Mancinelli 1920 - 2001

In Memoriam

Pier Luigi Mancinelli had an extremely interesting and varied career being educated at both Cambridge University and later at the University of Rome where he studied orchestral conducting when World War II broke out. After the war he returned to the University of Rome and did graduate work in civil engineering though followed this with a stint as a music critic for an Italian newspaper before spending eight years in East Africa supervising and constructing civil engineering projects.

It was in East Africa that he first developed an enthusiasm for golf course architecture constructing a make shift golf course in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro. He returned to Italy in the late 1950s and worked for C.K. Cotton on a number of projects before setting up his own company in early 1970s.

Pier Luigi was a fellow of the British Institute of Golf Course Architects and was President of the Association of Italian Golf Course Architects. He was a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club from 1967 and a member of the Association of Golf Course Writers from 1971. He wrote for Lazzetta dello Sport and was editor of Golf Selezione as well as writing for Golf Italiano. He worked in a number of countries from his base in Italy notably Quinta de Arambepe G.C., Brazil; Gassin G.C. and Lyon-Charbonnière G.C. France; Mehr Shahr G.C., Iran; Olgiata G.C. and Villa La Motta G.C. Italy; Yamoussoukro G.C., Ivory Coast; Is Arenas G.C. and Is Molas G.C., Sardinia.

He died in August 2001.