Belém Novo Golf Club

Overview: Belém Novo Golf Club is an 18-hole course in Porto Alegre’s Belém Novo district, on Avenida Juca Batista. The club’s current golf page lists 7,000 yards and credits architect Randall Thompson, with the course occupying 68 hectares. Its current programme combines everyday club golf with a junior team that competes nationally, while the Oktoberfest tournament and Aberto do RS connect the course to the organised golf calendar in Rio Grande do Sul. The setting is expansive enough to give the routing a distinct identity within the Porto Alegre area.

History: A 2005 Brazilian Golf Confederation report described Belém Novo as an 18-hole course completed roughly two years earlier, replacing a nine-hole course that had existed since the club’s creation in 1994. That provides a useful development sequence, but not a single uncontested opening date for the present routing. The current club website confirms the active 18-hole course and its continuing tournament tradition, so the profile keeps the opening-year field blank rather than converting the reported timeline into false precision.

Did You Know? Belém Novo’s 68-hectare footprint is unusually large for a course serving a metropolitan district. The club’s current presentation also places its youth programme alongside the main course, with junior players competing at national level. That pairing of a full-length 18-hole routing and a visible development pathway helps explain why Belém Novo functions as both a destination for experienced golfers and an important training base in southern Brazil.