By David Owen

rio 2016_golf_clubhouse_03-10-12October 3 - The grandson of a bronze medallist at the 1948 Olympics has scooped the prize for designing the clubhouse at Rio 2016, where golf will make its return to the Olympic programme after an absence of more than a century.

Pedro Évora, 34, is the grandson of Affonso Évora, point guard in the bronze medal-winning Brazil basketball team at London 1948.

He and co-author Pedro Rivera won a contest entered by 82 teams of architects and landscape architects from across Brazil.

A total of 57 projects was ultimately submitted.

The winner_Pedro_vora_presents_his_project_to_Carlos_Nuzman_and_Leonardo_GrynerThe winner Pedro Évora presents his project to Rio 2016 President Carlos Nuzman and chief executive Leonardo Gryner

The competition was open to professionals who graduated within the last 15 years.

Évora, whose work earned him and co-author Rivera a 25,000 Brazilian reals (£8,000/$12,000/€10,000) prize, promised those who play and attend a "unique experience, one that could only be experienced here".

He described the clubhouse, with its large veranda, as "an open space, with full contact with nature, integrated with the landscape of Barra".

rio 2016_golf_clubhouse_03-10-121The golf clubhouse, with its large veranda, has been described as "an open space, with full contact with nature, integrated with the landscape of Barra"

The course, to be built at Reserva de Marapendi in Barra da Tijuca, a neighbourhood of Rio, is being designed by United States-based Hanse Golf Course Design.

Golf is set to feature at the Olympics for the first time since the 1904 Games in St Louis.

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