Tagaytay Highlands Golf & Country Club

Overview: Tagaytay Highlands Golf & Country Club is an 18-hole, par-71 mountain course set about 2,000 feet above sea level on the Tagaytay ridge. Richard Bigler designed the routing to follow a steep, irregular site, where wind, fog, uphill play and shots across tropical valleys all influence club selection. The course looks out toward the surrounding highlands and lake country, but its defining feature is the movement of the ground, with tees, fairways and greens separated by dramatic changes in elevation.

History: The golf club was incorporated in 1991 as part of the larger Tagaytay Highlands leisure and residential development. Its available corporate record describes the course as an exclusive membership club and identifies Bigler as the American architect responsible for the 89-hectare slope. The sources do not establish a precise opening date for the current 18-hole routing, so the profile keeps that field open while preserving the documented foundation of the club and course.

Did You Know? The thirteenth tee is reported at 84 metres above the green, on a hole measuring 513 yards. Tagaytay Highlands also uses a cable-car system to connect the ends of the nines with the starting tees, an unusual response to the site’s vertical scale. The detail captures the course’s identity better than a generic mountain label: the elevation is an active design element from one hole to the next.