Golf & luxury living

Milan between fashion and golf: three days of shop windows and fairways

Armani/Silos is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, and on Mondays Tolcinasco, Molinetto, Zoate and Carimate close too. To combine a fashion city with its golf courses, start from the calendar, not the shop windows.

6 min read

Food & Wine

South Tyrol: wines and the autumn Törggelen

Between 200 and 1,000 metres above sea level, across 5,860 hectares, South Tyrol makes 65% white wine; and from early October to late November the farmsteads open their Stuben to the festival of new wine and chestnuts, the Törggelen.

5 min read

Style & Gear

Made 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.

5 min read

Summer golf: mountain courses to escape the heat

At Sestriere, in 1936, Henry Cotton won the Italian Open at 2,035 metres. That course, like others in the Alps and Dolomites today, opens only when the snow goes: in return it offers snow still on the peaks in June, and a calendar that the mountain sets by itself.

8 min read

Wellness & Spa

Spas for families

At six you may enter the Quellenhof's Family Spa, at sixteen its rooftop spa, and at Almar in Jesolo the spa is closed to anyone under sixteen. With children, the minimum age matters more than the square metres: here is where a golf hotel's spa truly welcomes the whole family.

6 min read

Food & Wine

Tuscany: Chianti, Brunello and Bolgheri between rounds

At Montalcino the stake on the last hole is a magnum of Brunello; at Vinci the estate beside the course bottles wine and olive oil. In Tuscany golf and wine meet in specific places, while Bolgheri remains a destination above all for the glass.

5 min read

Wellness & Spa

Massage for golfers: what the studies say and where to book one in a hotel

Eleven randomised clinical trials and 504 participants: those are the numbers behind a 2017 review of massage after intense exertion, with clearer results at 48 and 72 hours. The limits of the studies, however, are stated by the authors themselves, and they apply to golfers too.

4 min read

Golf on the Adriatic coast: Marche and Abruzzo

In 2009 the golf tournament of the Mediterranean Games was played among the olive groves and vineyards of Miglianico, in Abruzzo. The same course has since hosted a stage of the Alps Tour: it is the starting point of a coast where golf is small, little known and almost always cheap.

8 min read

Italy's Highest Golf Courses

From the 2,050 metres of Cervino to the roughly 1,000 of Premeno and Lanzo Intelvi, golf in Italy is played across a drop of more than a thousand metres, and every mountain club claims its own record.

8 min read

Golf in Franciacorta: courses and wineries

At Franciacorta Golf Club the three nine-hole loops are called Brut, Satèn and Rosé, after the wine styles produced all around. The course occupies an abandoned clay quarry, and it was a winemaker who transformed it.

7 min read

Food & Wine

Aperitivo after golf, region by region

A count from Fiesole asked the barman to add a little gin to his usual Americano: from that order, in Florence, the Negroni was born. Every Italian region has its own way of ending a round, and here are four stops.

6 min read

Luxury Stays

Golf 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.

7 min read

Robert Trent Jones in Italy: his courses

A volcanic crater drained by the Romans, a Savoy hunting reserve, a Benedictine castle: Robert Trent Jones and his son found seven settings in Italy, and no two are alike.

6 min read

Luxury Stays

Golf hotels in Apulia: the masserie for golfers

When the Melpignano family turned the Knights of Malta tower at Savelletri into a hotel, the Michelin Guide recounts, it was the first time \"masseria\" described an accommodation business. Today, nearby, there is an 18-hole course with sea views from every hole and a nine-hole course among the olive trees.

7 min read

Private villa holidays near a golf course: where to find them

Villa Stabbi, at Castiglion del Bosco, has six bedrooms and comes with an off-road vehicle for guests to use. It is one of the villas that some of Italy's grand hotels offer alongside their rooms: here is which ones, and with which golf course.

6 min read

Golf and cinema: Italy's famous film sets

In 1932 the first Venice Film Festival opened at the Hotel Excelsior on the Lido with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and a dance on the terrace; today a links course lies about twenty minutes from the hotel, and other hotel sets have a course close by.

7 min read

The 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.

5 min read

Argentario Golf Club: the course on the promontory

To win his first DP World Tour title, at Porto Ercole, Adrien Saddier needed two hundred starts. On the Argentario promontory above the Orbetello lagoon, the course that hosted the 2025 Italian Open is also the only one in Italy with a PGA National licence.

5 min read

Sailing and golf: the Italian places for both

On 16 May 2026 eight crews played the Pevero green; the next day they raced J/70s off Porto Cervo, and the final score added the two events together. It is the Vela & Golf, and it is not the only place in Italy where sea and fairway meet.

6 min read

Golf and the environment: the courses with GEO certification

In 2013, according to the club, a Sardinian course born in a pine forest planted on a desert of sand became the first in Italy to earn GEO certification. The list has grown since, but it is not long: here are seven certified clubs and what the badge means.

6 min read