Club Deportivo del Oeste


Club Deportivo del Oeste is a private club in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico which has the largest marina and one of only two golf courses in the Porta del Sol region of Puerto Rico.

History

The Club Deportivo del Oeste was founded in 1965 by prominent professionals from Mayagüez, Cabo Rojo and other Municipalities from western Puerto Rico in Joyuda Barrio of Cabo Rojo.
Among its facilities are an eighteen hole golf course in approximately of land, its first hole is considered the hardest in all of Puerto Rico The course was designed by Jack Bender in 1965. The golf course is one of two in the Porta del Sol region the other being in Aguadilla.
It also has a marina, four tennis courts, a club house for meetings and parties, a members only restaurant, pool, gym and a recreational park for children.
It annually holds the "Torneo Internacional de Aguja Azul en Línea Liviana" or "International Atlantic blue marlin Light Line Fishing tournament" which is the biggest of its kind in Puerto Rico and in 2010 celebrates its twenty second edition. Two fishing records of released fish have been established at the tournament; in 2003 a and in 2005 a total of 205 blue marlins released at the tournament.
The club annually serves non for profit organizations such as the Boy Scouts, the "Hogar para niños con Cáncer" and "Centro Espibi". The club also holds navigational courses offered by the United States Coast Guard and free golf clinics for children of low income families.
The "Deportivo" also offers scholarships for summer camps to students, it serves as a dock for the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources and it allows the Navy to use its vicinity to place an antenna used to measure the tide. Furthermore the club will serve for the installation of a Tsunami Ready alarm for Cabo Rojo.

Presidents

PresidentYears
1Salvador Suau, Noel Piñeiro1965–1966
2Ing. Noel Piñeiro1966–1968
3Ing. Frank Delgado1968–1969
4José M. Charana1969–1970
5Ing. Frank Ramirez,
José Charana,
Dr. Fernando Bayron
1970–1971
6Dr. Miguel A. Frontera Jr.,
Edgardo Vazquez,
Rafael Comas
1971–1972
7Bartolo Rivera1971–1973
8Ing. Frank Delgado1973–1974
9Ing. Alberto Moreda Camino1974–1975
10José Pluguez,
Cesar Rodríguez
1975–1976
11Dr. Francisco Guzman1976–1977
12Rafael Comas1977–1979
13Johnny Cruz Granell1979–1980
14Lcdo. Carlos García Rullan1981–1983
15Eliseo Font1983–1984
16Orlando Lugo Echevarria1984–1985
17Johny Cruz Granell1985–1986
18Nestor Martínez Vargas1986–1992
19Francisco González1994–2004
20Heriberto López2004–2007
21Normand Morell2007–2009
22Ing. Pedro Fernando Diez2009–present