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Style & GearMade in Italy golf clothing
For the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome, a brand from Costermano sul Garda was the official licensee and one born in Quarona in 1924 dressed Team Europe: golf has an Italian fashion scene, but “made in Italy” is a phrase that needs reading with care.
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Food & WineCooking classes at luxury resorts
Tortelli on Wednesday, gnocchi on Thursday, tagliatelle on Friday: at Villa d'Este the pasta class runs to a precise calendar, and four luxury resorts offer an afternoon that needs no golf bag.
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Golf Know-howThe essential rules of golf
Three minutes of searching, then the ball is lost and you play again from where you hit, with a one-stroke penalty. The rules that really matter to a beginner, with the R&A's official penalties in a table.
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Great CoursesSan Domenico Golf: the sea from every hole
The mistral, says the club, is an ally or an opponent at Savelletri depending on the hole, and the sea is in view from every point of the course. An 18-hole Andy Haggar design among centuries-old olive trees and the ruins of ancient Egnathia, a few metres from the Adriatic, which hosted the Challenge Tour Grand Final.
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Luxury StaysGolf hotels in Venice and the Veneto: four bases, from the Lido to the Asolo hills
An Austrian fort serves as the clubhouse at Alberoni, a villa once owned by Robert Browning looks over the Asolo hills, and in Jesolo a 70-metre pool runs along the beach. This is how golfers in the Veneto sleep, and play.
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Luxury LivingGolf and horses: resorts with riding stables
About twenty school horses, Haflingers, Icelandics and warmbloods, in a stable with a 60 by 24 metre indoor arena: in the Passeier Valley, anyone who stops playing golf can be in the saddle straight away.
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Luxury LivingArt near the golf courses: six museums not to miss
In 2026 the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona turns one hundred, and until 10 January 2027 an exhibition traces Carlo Scarpa's display design. It is one of six museums worth pairing with a golf course on rainy days, or on days of too much sun.
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Great CoursesRoyal Park I Roveri: two courses at the gates of Turin
“The most beautiful hole in Italy”: that is how La Gazzetta dello Sport described the 17th at Royal Park I Roveri in 2011. At Fiano, two 18-hole courses share the former Savoy hunting reserve.
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Great CoursesThe 9-hole courses worth travelling for
A nine-hole course is played twice, which is why place matters more than design: at Courmayeur a river runs through it, at Carezza there are 400 metres of elevation change, at Cortina every hole is named after a peak. Ten short courses, chosen because each has a reason to go.
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Luxury LivingItalian design in luxury hotels, from Gio Ponti to Olga Polizzi
A chair by Vico Magistretti takes its name from a golf club: the “Carimate” was born from the clubhouse restaurant the architect was designing. Italian design has left similar traces in the hotels where you sleep between rounds.
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Great CoursesKyle Phillips in Italy
From Scotland to Morocco, the Netherlands and South Korea, the map of Kyle Phillips's courses has a single point in Italy, and it lies in Sciacca, Sicily.
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Food & WineWineries with a golf course
Ferruccio Lamborghini left tractors and cars for the vineyards of Panicale: the first vintage dates from 1975, the golf course from 1991. It is the most singular of the Italian estates where wine and greens share the same land.
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Luxury StaysWhere to stay near Milan for a golf trip
At the Golf Hotel in Lainate, a few kilometres from Milan, all 34 rooms are on the same floor: one side looks over the course, the other over the pool. It is one of the ways Milan's clubs solve the night, alongside lodges, residences and grand hotels on the lakes.
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Great CoursesAcademies and performance centres: where to train on holiday
A 30-minute Trackman lesson is part of Verdura's Golf Inclusive offer, while in Appiano the training centre sits within the walls of a castle. Nine places in Italy where a golf holiday can also become a stretch of work on your game.
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Wellness & SpaWorking out on holiday: the gyms of golf hotels
At eight in the morning, before the round, some guests take a free yoga class on a jetty on Lake Garda, while others run on a treadmill looking out over the Adriatic. These are the golf hotels where the gym is genuinely part of the stay.
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Golf Know-howPreventing golf injuries: back, elbow, wrist and good habits
73.5% of professional golfers and 56.6% of amateurs risk a musculoskeletal injury over a lifetime: figures from a 2024 review cited by the AAOS, and they dispel the idea of golf as a sport without risk.
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Golf TravelThe first golf trip to Italy: mistakes to avoid
A historic course that admits only members on Saturdays, one closed on Tuesdays, another whose season starts in late May. A first golf trip to Italy is almost always spoiled by a detail the club's website puts in small print.
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Golf Know-howGolf carts in Italy: when you need one and what they cost
Between €44 and €60: the price of a golf cart for 18 holes at ten Italian clubs, according to 2026 price lists. When renting one really makes sense, who may drive it and the rules to know before you climb aboard.
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Great CoursesItaly's most spectacular golf holes
A green shaped like Africa, a tee in the middle of a lake, a par 4 that drops sheer onto the rocks: ten Italian courses with a hole worth the journey, and where to sleep to play it.
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Great CoursesIs Molas: the hole shaped like Africa and four Italian Opens
At the 14th at Is Molas the green is almost surrounded by water and traces the outline of the African continent. For Baldovino Dassù, who won the first Italian Open played here in 1976, the advice is to fly over Cape Town.
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Golf TravelFrom Munich to South Tyrol: a golf weekend by car
It is 284 kilometres from Munich to Bolzano, about three and a half hours without traffic according to the ADAC route. Three days are enough to play three South Tyrol courses, at altitudes from 850 to 1,680 metres, and to spend two nights in two different hotels.
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Luxury StaysThe Leading Hotels of the World with golf in Italy: four addresses to play from
Among the founding members of The Leading Hotels of the World in 1928 was a hotel in Sanremo that had opened in 1872. Today four Italian hotels in the group have a course within easy reach, and only one has it in its own grounds.
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Golf TravelCar hire and transfers for golfers in Italy
To hire a car in Italy, according to the ACI, you need a credit card in the driver's name, and holders of a non-EU licence also need an international driving permit. But for a golfer the decisive question is a different one: car or transfer?
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Golf TravelThe Golf Courses Closest to the Sea in Italy
Joakim Lagergren, who won the 2018 Sicilian Open at Verdura, said you can see the sea from that course “from almost every hole”. Ten Italian clubs can claim something similar: here is where to play with the water in front of you.
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