This is 99% Invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

After the revolution in Cuba, the young Fidel Castro hired an official photographer by

the name of Alberto Cora to chronicle his new life as a national leader.

Cora followed Castro and Che Guevara, taking pictures of them as they met world leaders,

went fishing, faced off in chess.

He even took that iconic image of Che.

The one that's on millions of t-shirts.

That's calm, man.

I've trouble me.

But my favorite images that Cora captured are of Che and Fidel playing golf.

It was January 3rd, 1961, two years after the revolution.

When Che suggested they go play around.

You know, Fidel said, well, you know, I don't play golf and Che did play golf.

He was actually pretty good.

And he'd been a caddy back in Chile.

Helping us tell this story is John Lumis.

I'm John Lumis, I'm an architect and an architectural historian.

So Che and Fidel drove out to what was the Ritzias Most Elite Country Club in Havana.

All the members of the club, they practically have all left the country.

But still here's this amazing place.

The people who work here are still keeping everything clean and neat and taking care of it.

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