Club de Campo Villa de Madrid (Negro)
Club de Campo Villa de Madrid (Negro) · Centro
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Club de Campo is now a council-run facility belonging to the City Hall. However, up until the late 1980s, this was home for the RSHE club, which moved to a new location to the north of the city when their Robert von Hagge courses came into play.
Javier Arana (who many regard as Spain’s finest ever architect) designed the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid's Negro course that is in play today. It’s a challenging, tree-lined and sometimes dramatic layout.
The club was founded in 1930 and its original 18-hole course, which was laid out by Tom Simpson and Philip Mackenzie Ross, opened for play a couple of years after the club’s formation. Following the Spanish Civil War, during which the course was extensively damaged, a 9-hole layout (featuring seven holes from an earlier Javier Arana design) was opened for play in 1952.
It would take another four years before a full 18-hole course was unveiled at Club de Campo, when Arana designed a new nine and remodelled the existing 9-hole circuit. Following the club’s decision to expand its golfing operations in the 1960s, Arana constructed a third nine and this resulted in a small change to the original routing, with the 15th and 18th holes becoming the 7th and 9th.
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