The phrase "a course that started" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific course that has begun at a certain time, often in an educational context.
Example: "I enrolled in a course that started last week on advanced mathematics."
Alternatives: "a class that commenced" or "a program that began".
On a new course that started and finished near the Washington Monument, the 36th Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run crowned new two new champions, Ridouane Harroufi and Lineth Chepkurui -- and may have heralded a changing of the guard among the world's top distance runners.
In one example Jobcentre advisers sent me on a one-day course that started on the same day as the letter arrived.
Bridalplasty is par for a very, very bizarre cultural course that started somewhere back on MTV's first drunken Real World and will end somewhere humid and pustulous, where no light escapes.
He looked fast as he ticked off mile after mile of the 32-mile course that started in Bordeaux.
Mr. Tahiro and Ms. Done enrolled in the course that started last January, when about half of the class were immigrants.
Of course, that started to change when I discovered At the Drive-In.
The Inferno, with a field of 1,500 racing over a 10-mile course that starts 3,000 metres up at the summit of the Schilthorn, is organised by the Kandahar Club, which Arnold Lunn founded in Mürren in 1924 to promote his new sport and train British racers.
Jennifer Block finds the answer in what she calls "contemplative caregiving" — the application of Buddhist principles to caregiving and the subject of a year-long course that starts at the San Francisco Zen Center in a few weeks.
It is also one of the largest races around in terms of participants all of whom come to celebrate The City By The Bay. Tens of thousands costumed runners and walkers make their way through the 12K (just under 7.5 miles) course that starts at a point near the Embarcadero and travels west across the city to the crashing breakers of the Pacific Ocean.
