The Tijuana Country Club (Club Campestre de Tijuana) is a country club located in
. The country club was the site of the historic
Agua Caliente Open
The Agua Caliente Open was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour first played in 1930 in Tijuana, Mexico
Tijuana ( , and
Tijuana Open Invitational
The Agua Caliente Open was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour first played in 1930 in Tijuana Country Club, Tijuana, Mexico. The inaugural event, which was won by Gene Sarazen, offered the largest purse to date — $25,000 with a $10,000 winner ...
, former golf tournaments on the
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also k ...
. The country club, as well as the accompanying golf course, is located in Boulevard Agua Caliente.
History
The golf course was originally designed in 1927 by
William P. Bell
William Park Bell (April 19, 1886 – June 21, 1953) was a noted golf course architect, active from the 1920s into the early 1950s.
Biography
Born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, Billy Bell studied agriculture at Duff's Business Institute in Pittsbur ...
. Famous professional golf players like
Gene Sarazen
Gene Sarazen (; born Eugenio Saraceni, February 27, 1902 – May 13, 1999) was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s, and the winner of seven major championships. He is one of five players (along ...
,
Paul Runyan
Paul Scott Runyan (July 12, 1908 – March 17, 2002) was an American professional golfer. Among the world's best players in the mid-1930s, he won two PGA Championships, and is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. Runyan was also a golf instruc ...
,
Dutch Harrison
Ernest Joseph "Dutch" Harrison (March 29, 1910 – June 19, 1982) was an American professional golfer whose career spanned over four decades—one of the longest in the history of the PGA Tour.
Born in Conway, Arkansas and nicknamed "The Arkansa ...
, and
Ernie Vossler
Ernest Orville Vossler (November 29, 1928 – February 16, 2013) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour; he later prospered in the fields of golf course design and construction, golf course management services and real esta ...
have played at the club. Though the clientele has become increasingly Mexican over the years, it remains popular with golfers across the border in
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
.
PGA Tour pro
Cesar Sanudo
Cesar Sanudo (October 26, 1943 – August 28, 2011) was a Mexican professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour.
Golf career
Sanudo was born and raised in Tijuana, Mexico with his four siblings. Like many other Hispani ...
was introduced to golf when he started working as a caddie at the club.
Course
References
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External links
Tijuana Country Club
Golf clubs and courses in Tijuana
Golf clubs and courses in Mexico