With over 100 years of history, the Menaggio & Cadenabbia Golf Club, founded in 1907 by an English gentleman, is the second oldest golf club in Italy.

Born on Lake Como at the end of the 19th century on the initiative of four British gentlemen, it is the second oldest Golf Club in Italy.

Towards the end of the 1800s, Lake Como was one of the most popular destinations for English-speaking elite tourism, which had found an ideal area between Menaggio, Tremezzo, Cadenabbia and Bellagio, where hotels and villas had sprung up to shelter a community in continuous growth.

They were mainly industrialists and textile traders united by the same business and love for these places. With the aim of recreating the English family environment in a different context, with a decidedly better climate, four English gentlemen, headed by the banker Henry John Mylius, met on the 10th of January 1907 at the Victoria Hotel in Menaggio to found the Menaggio Cadenabbia golf club.

In 1923, with the advent of Mr Wyatt, the field became a difficult 18-hole Par 64 course. Both in 1907 and in 1923 there was the supervision of John Henry Taylor, a great English Professional of the time who won the 5 Open Championship.

In 1963, the then President Antonio Roncoroni called John Harris to redesign the course, which underwent a real revolution with the addition of 4 new holes and the modification of another 8. The Par grew from 66 (the old 64 that had undergone minor modifications) to 69.

Today the course has undergone, under the current Presidency, some further changes that have brought the par to 70. The plants have grown and the fairways have narrowed and the course is very delicate.

The motto “Far and Sure”, present on the emblem of the Circle, will seem very appropriate to any player facing the course for the first time.

The Club House is the keystone of Menaggio tradition. Entering it is like stepping into the past, into a corner of England of the last century.

For all golfers who have been lucky enough to pass through, the Menaggio Club House is an unforgettable place: the parquet consumed by 100 years of history, vintage prints hanging on the walls, the shields engraved with the names of the “Captains”, racks with golf clubs of the past and a huge fireplace to warm yourself up on autumn days. Every part of the small club house tells you something about the history of this great club.

Restrictions: Offer valid with Golfamore Card: 50% off the greenfee for single player. Valid all days of the week. Valid once per year. Golfamore Card is now included in your Open Fairways membership.