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Bacolod offers the sportsman various outdoor activities like watersports, tennis, mountain climbing and its biggest attraction golf.
Bacolod is the golf center of the Visayas. Its three world-class courses have produced some of the country's best swingers:
Bacolod Golf and Country club (Hacienda Binitin, Murcia, Negros Occidental)
The club has a tight and compact 18-hole layout in a sugar plantation setting. Open to tourists, it has a clubhouse, restaurant, swimming pool and locker rooms.
Negros Occidental Golf and Country Club (Bata Subd., Bacolod City) is located near the city center. The 18-hole golf course will challenge the intrepid golfer with its many water hazards and the strong winds from the Mt. Kanlaon. Open to tourists, it has a clubhouse, tennis courts and swimming pool
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The recently held Palarong Pambansa, Philippine National Sports competition left behind on immensely improved sports complex, popularly referred to as the Pana-ad Stadium.
Surrounded by a man-made natural mini-forest, the Pana-ad complex evokes an environmentally friendly replica of a stadium within a rainforest conducive to sports development.