News from Golf in Brazil
On this page you find news about golf in Brazil: tournaments, reopened and redesigned golf courses, rankings and stories from Brazilian golf clubs. Brazil hosts few international tournaments, and only some Brazilian players compete abroad, but federations and clubs are working to change this.
Professional golf in Brazil
The most important professional tournament in Brazil is the ECP Brazil Open of the PGA TOUR Americas. It was played at the Olympic Golf Course in Rio de Janeiro in 2024 and 2025, and in April 2026 the 71st edition opened the season there. The Brazilian Golf Confederation (CBG) organises the national championships and supports young players.
Golf courses: openings, redesigns and changes
Golf courses in Brazil change over time. Búzios Golf Club reopened in 2019 with a longer layout of 7,009 yards, and Praia do Forte in Bahia now plays as a 9-hole course. We checked all course pages in November 2026.
Golf travel in Brazil
If you plan a golf trip, see our golf packages for Rio de Janeiro, Foz do Iguaçu, Terravista and Aquiraz, or browse all golf courses in Brazil by state.
Send us your news for the Brazilian golf Market
If you have any news from or for the Brazilian golf market, please let us know.
PGA TOUR Latin America: Q-School stage in Brazil
After performing for the first time in history two consecutive stages of the PGA TOUR Latin America, Brazilian golf received another important news. Therefore Brazil got a Q-School stage in [...]
News Golf in Brazil – November 2018
The latest News of November 2018 for playing golf in Brazil: World Golf Awards 2018 ? The winners for Brazil. Terravista Golf Course listed at the 30 worlds most beautiful Golf Courses. Re-Opening of the Itanhanga Golf Course after renovation. New Year at the Olympic Golf Course in Rio de Janeiro. Malai Golf in Matto Grosso is closed.
Colombian Marcelo Rozo wins the 65th JHSF Brazil Open
Colombian Marcelo Rozo wins the 65th JHSF Brazil Open. This Brazilian PGA TOUR Latin America Tournament was played at the Randall Thompson Golf Course in Fazenda Boa Vista. With a [...]
PGA Tour LA at the Sao Paulo Golf Club
Rafa Becker, sponsored by Copag, and Guilherme Oda from the Damha Golf Club C, saved the country at the Sao Paulo Golf Club Championship. It was the tenth leg of [...]
Itanhanga Golf Course – BACK TO THE ORIGINS
The Mexican architect Agustin Piza commissions modernization and resumes original tracing the layout of the Itanhanga Golf Club. Maintaining a golf course Maintaining a golf course is hard, specific and [...]
Top 20 Golf Courses of Brazil 2018
Top 20 Golf Courses of Brazil 2018 ranked by Top100 Golf Courses. At the last ranking of 2016, in front of the Olympic Games 2016, the Olympic Golf Course [...]
Manifest for the Sport in Brazil
The Brazilian Golf Confederation is a signer of the sport manifest in Brazil. It includes the following items: Taking sports resources is to take money on education, health, and public [...]
Brazilian professionals around the world
The weekend had several Brazilian professionals competing around the world, especially at the Bupa Match Play. Therefore it closed the first half of the PGA Tour Latin America season. See [...]
Brazil participate at the congress of the FSG
15.05.2018 - Daniel Neves represented the Brazilian Golf Confederation - CBG at the Congress of the South American Golf Federation - FSG, held last Friday (11. May 2018). The director [...]