The designing of golf courses in the Harradine family dates back to 1920 when Peter's step grand-father designed and built his first course. Don Harradine, Peter's father designed and built his first course in 1929 and pursued an illustrious and celebrated career until his retirement in the late 80's.

Born in 1945 next to the old course in Gurten (Berne) Peter is continuing the family tradition. His contact with golf course construction started as a very young boy. His father drafted him to work on his projects during the school holidays which provided an obligatory, early and somewhat discontented experience with mud, rubber boots, rocks, clay, drainage, heat, target dates, broken down machinery and all the other niceties of construction sites.

Playing golf was compulsory in the family and he received his first set of clubs at the age of six. A little practice and many rounds could not improve a handicap of 5. Frequent travel caused by his own insistence for personal supervision of the numerous and scattered sites coupled with recurring and severe back problems have relegated him to a 'Sunday' player who encourages his sons to play this fantastic but oh so frustrating game.

In  1965-1966 Peter went to the U.S.A. to study the theoretical and practical aspects of landscaping and golf course design and construction. This visit provided a very interesting and astonishing experience in to their philosophy and construction methods. Upon returning to Europe, he built and designed many courses with his father and other prominent European Architects of the time.

A visit to the United Arab Emirates in 1976 to investigate the possibilities of a golf course led to the establishment of an office in the Middle East.

Peter is the Chief Architect in "Harradine Golf" and has personally designed and co-designed over 160 golf courses in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East from projects at sea level in arid, hot, rocky and salty conditions to ecologically sensitive courses, in the plains and mountains and up to cold alpine sites at altitudes of 1850 metres.

Peter is a past President of the European Institute of Golf Course Architects and the European Society of Golf Course architects.