Several years ago Hugo Chavez, the world’s most golf-phobic president, threatened to shut down the two most prominent golf clubs in Caracas and replace them with houses for people stuck in Venezuela’s shantytowns.
But the clubs -- Valle Arriba Golf Club and Caracas Country Club -- have survived, and today their members are thinking about renovations. Valle Arriba, which opened in 1942, wants to rebuild the greens and greenside bunkers on its course, while the nature of the job at Caracas, the city’s oldest club (it was founded in 1918), is to be determined.
Both clubs have hosted the Venezuela Open several times, and both have discussed the work with Randy Thompson of Santiago, Chile-based American Golf Course Design.
Thompson designed the first golf course at Fazenda Boa Vista in Porto Feliz, Brazil as well as Manta Raya Golf Club in Farallón, Panama; Four Seasons Golf Club in Carmelo, Uruguay; and three courses in Chile.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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