It is made from mayonnaise with a smaller amount of tomato-based sauce such as ketchup, as well as seasonings including pimento, oregano, and cumin.

[1][2] According to legend, the sauce was invented by the physician Luis Federico Leloir in the mid-1920s at the golf club of the seaside resort Mar del Plata.

Tired of eating shrimp and prawn with mayonnaise, he asked the waiter to bring various ingredients (vinegar, lemon, mustard, ketchup, and others) and experimented with different mixtures.

Seasoning is added to give the sauce an Argentine flavor, such as pimento, oregano, and cumin.

In neighboring Paraguay, salsa golf is also very popular and is sometimes eaten as a delicacy with quail eggs.