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Camargo Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Cincinnati, Ohio featuring 6,659 yards with a par of 70, a course rating of 72.5, and a slope rating of 133. The course was designed by Seth Raynor in 1927, with bunker work by Robert von Hagge in 1983 and restoration by Tom Doak in 2000. The gently rolling topography outside of Cincinnati provides wide playing corridors and fairways, with green complexes and greens that are exceptionally large. The greens average ¼ acre in size, which match up nicely to the wide fairways.

Camargo is highlighted by one of the finest collections of par threes that Seth Raynor ever designed. The par threes are outstanding and include Eden, Biarritz, Short, and Redan holes. The 5th hole, known as Eden, is a 179-yard par 3 featuring a penal hill bunker on the left side that sits some 20 feet below the putting surface. The 7th hole is an Alps-style hole with a punchbowl green well below the fairway. The course's massive, subtly undulated greens complement the rolling terrain, with outstanding green complexes that are large and have interior movements.

Camargo Club wasn't completed until nearly a year after Seth Raynor's 1926 death. Tom Doak's restoration work has helped preserve Raynor's design intent by converting bunkers back to his original style and returning shrunken greens to their appropriate proportions.