Club De Golf Los Leones

Overview: Club de Golf Los Leones is an 18-hole, par-72 parkland course in Las Condes, Santiago, set among mature trees at the foot of Cerro San Luis. Agustín Edwards Budge and Edgard von Schroeders laid out the present course, whose fairways and greens sit within a carefully planted urban landscape rather than an isolated resort setting. The official club length is 7,132 yards. Tree-lined corridors, changes in elevation and the scale of the surrounding Santiago neighbourhood give Los Leones a formal, traditional character, while the modern updates keep the course relevant for high-level competition.

History: The club began as Santiago Golf Club on 3 August 1910, with the first recorded game played at the Hipódromo Chile later that year. After a nine-hole phase at El Bosque, the club moved to an 18-hole course in Los Leones in 1921. In 1934 it acquired 71 hectares on the foothills of Cerro San Luis, where Budge and von Schroeders prepared the definitive layout. The present course and clubhouse were inaugurated in 1937. In the late 2010s the club approved a Mackenzie & Ebert masterplan, with work on several holes and a broader programme of course modernisation.

Did You Know? The original 1930s planting plan called for 6,872 trees of different species, a number still associated with the identity of Los Leones. The club has hosted major South American competitions, including the Copa Los Andes and PGA Tour Latinoamérica events. It also staged the Abierto de Chile in 2015, and Joaquín Niemann won the 2018 Abierto Los Leones while setting the club’s modern tournament record at 25 under par.