The Club Intramuros Golf Course is a golf course situated on the periphery of the walled area of

Intramuros Intramuros (Latin for "inside the walls") is the historic walled area within the city of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. It is administered by the Intramuros Administration with the help of the city government of Manila. Present-day I ...

Manila Manila ( , ; fil, Maynila, ), officially the City of Manila ( fil, Lungsod ng Maynila, ), is the capital of the Philippines, and its second-most populous city. It is highly urbanized and, as of 2019, was the world's most densely populate ...

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. It one of the oldest golf courses in the Philippines.

History

The Club Intramuros Golf Course's location used to be a moat surrounding the walled area of

in Manila which was converted into a sunken garden before being repurposed as a golf course during the

American colonial era The colonial history of the United States covers the history of European colonization of North America from the early 17th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the ...

. The golf club behind the course, Club Intramuros was established in the early 1990s. The course started as a nine-hole course, initially known as the Manila Municipal Golf Links. In the early 1930s, the Manila City Government assumed management of the course and the Intramuros golfing venue was expanded into a full 18-hole, 60 par course with a length of . By the 1950s, a driving range already exists in the golf course and by the 1960s, the golf venue has been expanded to a 18-hole course. The management and control of the Intramuros golf course was transferred to the

Philippine Tourism Authority The Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA), formerly the Philippine Tourism Authority ( fil, Pangasiwaang Pilipino sa Turismo), is an agency of the Philippine national government under the Department of Tourism responsibl ...

(now Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority) in 1981 during the administration of Philippine President

Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. ( , , ; September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, dictator, and kleptocrat who was the 10th president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martial ...

. Golf architect Andy Dye was tasked to lead renovation works on the Intramuros golf course during the administration of Philippine President

Fidel V. Ramos Fidel Valdez Ramos (, ; March 18, 1928 – July 31, 2022), popularly known as FVR and Eddie Ramos, was a Filipino general and politician who served as the 12th president of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998. He was the only career military ...

. In 2018, the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority started renovation works on the golf course.

References

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