Clube De Golf De Brasília

Overview: Clube de Golfe de Brasília is an 18-hole course in the capital’s Setor de Clubes Esportivos Sul, beside Lago Paranoá. The course record used for this profile gives par 72 and 6,788 yards, while the club’s own history credits Robert Trent Jones Sr. with the design. Its setting is unusually inseparable from Brasília itself: the site was reserved in the original modernist plan, and the holes occupy a preserved lakeside part of the city rather than a distant resort landscape. Current Confederation events confirm that the course remains an active venue for 18-hole competition.

History: Lúcio Costa’s 1957 Plano Piloto already included a place for a golf club as Brasília was being planned. After the capital opened in 1960, the Clube de Golfe de Brasília was formally established on 11 March 1964 to care for the public area and its sporting use. The club’s official history connects the course to Robert Trent Jones Sr., whose design brought an internationally recognised golf architect into the new capital’s modernist project. The 1964 date is used here as the documented start of the club and course identity, not as a claim about a separate construction-completion ceremony.

Did You Know? The eighth hole is the course’s best-known visual feature in published descriptions: a par-three that runs around Lago Paranoá and is listed at 210 yards. The club is also part of Brasília’s protected civic landscape, with the city’s heritage status involving IPHAN and UNESCO. The combination of a modernist capital, a Robert Trent Jones design and a lakeside par three gives this course an unusually strong architectural setting.