The first Dutch Open polo tournament, organised by Bert Spaak, was played at Lage Vuursche near Hilversum in 1988. Since no Dutch polo players with any sort of experience existed at that time, all of the poloplayers particapated were foreigners.

Also in 1988 the first Dutch polo club was established in Leende, near Eindhoven, were a exhibition match was played on September 25th 1988. This club did not exist long. It was succeeded by the founding of Polo Club Balkenschoten, near Nijkerk. For quite a while this stayed the only place in Holland were polo could be played.

In 1993 Polo Club Wassenaar near The Hague was founded by the Dutch retired expat Nick Grooss and organized its first polotournament called "The Orange" in 1994. Polo Club Wassenaar is situated next to the racetrack Duindigt in Wassenaar and is currently the largest polo club in the Netherlands.
Their most important goals are to promote polo nationally, to encourage (young) people to start enjoying and playing polo and experienced players to keep improving their game whilst enjoying a warm, friendly atmostphere.

For this Polo Club Wassenaar organises multiple public polotournaments with all levels of polo, pololessons, clinics and polo starters courses each year.

Polo clubs have now also been formed in Houten (Dutch Polo and Country Club), at Deuverden (Polo Club Deuverden) and near Hilversum (Polo Club Vreeland in 2003) with stabling facilities next to the polofields. Private polofields are established in Domburg, Middelbeers, Noorden and Breukelen.

At this moment there are 67 registered Dutch players in Holland (Polo Club Wassenaar 31, Polo Club Vreeland 17, Polo Club Deuverden 12 and Dutch Polo and Country Club 7) with handicaps up to handicap 3. We have about 20 poloprofessionals here up to handicap 6. Almost all the polohorses and equipment are imported from Argentina.

We have now around 30 polotournaments a year in the Netherlands ranging from -2 up to handicap 16. We also have one handicap 20 demonstration played only by the poloprofessionals.

In the Netherlands we have the Dutch Polo Tour which is a premium selection of 20 of those polotournaments and divided into 4 leagues. The Bronze League ranges from handicap -4-0, the Silver League from 1-4, the Gold League from 5-7 and the Diamond League from 8-12.

Points won by the players who became 1st, 2nd or 3rd of these polotournaments are added to a personal ranking. Prices for the Best male, female and Junior Poloplayer are awarded at the Polo.nl Season Kick-Off Party at the luxury five start Amstel Hotel to celebrate the beginning of each poloseason. The Dutch poloseason starts on April 1st and ends on September 30th.

The largest polotournament in the Netherlands is The Scapa Orange. In this handicap 8 polotournament in total 12 poloteams participate every year.

The most visited polotournament is The Amsterdam Polo Trophy were around 4.000 people enjoy the two daily polomatches in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.

The highest handicapped match is the 20+ Polo Orange Pro's Cup. In this polodemonstration, played the beginning of september near Tilburg, only the highest poloprofessionals in the Netherlands are playing in a match between Argentines against the rest of the world.

We have a very talented young Dutch National team who won the silver medal at the European Championships 2002 in Italy and the bronze medal at the European Championships 2005 played in the Netherlands.

They are now off to play in the European Playoffs of the World Championship at Sotogrande.
  
Every year the number of poloplayers and polotournaments still increases in the Netherlands.
So we believe polo in Holland has a great future.