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Style & GearAccessories for the travelling golfer: eight things not to forget
Before you even choose your accessories, someone has already decided which ones you need: the Rules of Golf, club regulations, airlines. Here are eight accessories, each with the rule that makes it useful.
7 min read
Great Courses27- and 36-hole courses: several days of golf without changing club
Four rounds in four days, and no two alike: that is the promise of clubs with 27 or 36 holes, where a golf week does not mean repacking the suitcase every evening. Here are twelve addresses, from Monferrato to Sicily.
9 min read
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.
6 min read
Wellness & SpaSpas 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
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.
7 min read
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?
5 min read
Luxury LivingWatches and golf: a history of sponsorship
Tiger Woods has five green jackets, Jack Nicklaus six, Arnold Palmer four, Gary Player three: all four have been ambassadors for the same watch brand. Where did the alliance between haute horlogerie and golf come from, and where can you see it in Italy too?
5 min read