The Luisita Golf and Country Club is a

golf course A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played. It consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a tee box, a fairway, the rough and other hazards, and a green with a cylindrical hole in the ground, known as a "cup". ...

and

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in San Miguel,

Tarlac City Tarlac City, officially the City of Tarlac ( pam, Lakanbalen ning Tarlac; pag, Siyudad na Tarlac; ilo, Siudad ti Tarlac; fil, Lungsod ng Tarlac ), is a 1st class component city and capital of the province of Tarlac, Philippines. According to ...

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History

The Luisita Golf and Country Club was built within the

Hacienda Luisita Hacienda Luisita is a 6,453-hectare sugar plantation located in the province of Tarlac, Philippines. The hacienda spans 11 barangays in three towns of Tarlac province. Most of the original farmworkers reside in 10 villages – Barangays Balete, ...

estate then largely owned by the Cojuangco family in the 1960s commissioning Robert Trent Jones, Sr. for the design. When the estate was acquired by Martin Lorenzo in 2015, Jones' son, Robert Jr. was tasked serve as a consultant as part of the golf course's renovation works which led to the addition of tee boxes.

Background

The Luisita Golf and Country Club's layout was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr. The golf course has 18 holes with greens of primarily Tifdwarf and fairways of Tifton 419. However portions of the course's fairways has been overtaken by

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and other indigenous grasses. The greens existing in 2018 were originally planted in 1968.

Tournaments

Luista Golf and Country Club hosted the 2015 Philippine Open and the golf events of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.

References

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