CLUB DE CAMPO MÁLAGA.

    On 9 th March 1926, a meeting was held in the Mayr of Málaga's office for the purpose of constituting a Golf Society with a view to boosting tourism and general interest in the municipality.

     The Rules of this Society, called "Málaga Golf Club" , were approved by the Gobierno Civil (civil government body) on 24 th April that year, and thus the Society was incorporated with the following founding Board of Directors:
    President: José Gálvez Ginachero
    Vice-president: Luis Fernández de Villavicencio y Crooke
    Secretary: Joaquín García de Toledo y Clemens
    Treasure: Enrique Van Dulken Nagel
    Board Members : José Álvarez Gómez, Francisco Crooke Campos, Enrique Mac Bride, Marqués de Valdecañas, Cecilio Harris y Cristián Heierle.

The Infante, Jaime de Borbón, during the ceremony laying the foundation stone for Torremolinos Golf Course. At the front, on his right, Luis Fernández de Villavicencio y Crooke, Málaga Golf Club's second President, and from right to left, Mr. Colmenares (Chief Public Prosecutor), General Cano Ortega, Juan Luis Peralta Bundsen, Tomás Heredia Benito, Carmen Werner, Angelines López Pelegrín, Fernando Guerrero Strachan, Joaquín García de Toledo and journalist, Juan Cortés Salido. The date was 3 rd December, 1929.

     On 30th March 1927, José Gálvez 's resignation was accepted and when Luis Fernández de Villavicencio was chosen as new President, the Marquis of Valdecañas stepped into the Vice-presidency.

    Málaga Golf Club was the entity that purchased the first plots of land for the golf course, an extension of 44 hectares, 67.33 areas that came from the Velarde y Chochales estates, part of the Hacienda Nueva Colonia property situated in the valley of the former municipality of Churriana, since annexed to the municipality of Málaga.

    Construction on Málaga Golf Club's course and installations began and mortgages were taken out with the National Tourist Board in order to pay the costs.

Ángel Fernández de Liencres y de la Viesca, Marquis of Nájara, Founder President of Club de Campo de Málaga and a person that has been of great importance in the life and development of the same.

     Following the Civil War and the dissolution of the Málaga Golf Club Society, for a period of several years the installations were run by the course's Official Tourism Representatives who organised both the sports activities and the social activities, as well as the works for course maintenance and improvements.

     On 7 th December 1956, the first set of Regulations for Club de Campo de Málaga were drawn up. They were signed by the Marquis of Nájera, Ángel Fernandez de Liencres y de la Viesca, and approved by the Spanish Golf Federation's Office for East Andalucía and by the Gobierno Civil in Málaga.