Baguio Country Club History 1905

The Baguio Country Club hails from an immensely rich history of more then one hundred colorful years

The Baguio Country Club founded by Governor General William Cameron Forbes in 1905 to provide sports and recreation for the migrant residents of Baguio and to promote this mountain area as pleasurable and restful respite and destination.

In February 1906, when Forbes circulated a prospectus to attract membership, the Baguio Country Club was then consisted of a hastily build clubhouse, a staff of one, two tennis courts, three croquet grounds, and a three-hole golf course. But Forbes' prospectus promised a much grander clubhouse: one "with fine dining facilities, a bar, lockers rooms, shower, reading rooms, great open fireplaces in which pine logs will crackle merrily night and day, a few bedrooms, and a billiard room." In 1907, the Baguio Country Club Corporation was organized. This same year, links for nine holes were laid, and the tennis courts were smoothed out. In 1908, a permanent clubhouse was completed, cottages sprung up, and the most welcome news: the club started serving meals.

Later years and later decades saw the Baguio Country Club take firm root, improve, and expand. It continued to offer comfortable accommodation, a meeting place and a place for outdoor and indoor sports in the highlands of the Cordillera. It carries the chic luxury of its past, and the feel and hospitality of a modern private home, since the time of construction. Through continuos transformation and innovation in the service industry, the Club is rated as one of the Triple A (AAA) Hotels & Resorts of the Philippines by the Department of Tourism. Having reached its 100 years of existence in the year 2005, the National Historical Institute bestowed Baguio Country Club as one of the national heritage in the country.

What started as a one-room shack and 3 holes set-up is now most celebrated venue for social and business gathering. The Club's passion for excellence in everything it does, always mindful of its corporate social responsibilities that go whit power and privilege, has made it an enviable institution