Golf in Italy
Golf in Apulia
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In Apulia, golf is played in the countryside of Savelletri, at Fasano, between sea and centuries-old olive trees. At San Domenico Golf, a course by Andy Haggar a stone's throw from the Adriatic, the mistral changes the strategy of every hole, an ally or an opponent depending on the day.
A short distance away, the Coccaro Golf Club is a nine-hole par-27 executive course where the olive trees are around 700 years old and the almond trees blossom in March. Two nearby courses, each different, with the wind and light of the South deciding the play.
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Luxury StaysLuxury masserie in Apulia near golf: three towers and two alternatives
Three towers built to watch the sea, between the 15th and 16th centuries, are now luxury masserie in the Fasano area, and none was built for golfers. Yet today a nine-hole course among the olive trees and an 18-hole course by the sea lie right beside them.
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Food & WineApulia: Primitivo and the cooking of the masserie
Primitivo di Manduria must be at least 85% Primitivo, cannot exceed 18 grams of sugar per litre, and the Riserva spends two years in the cellar: yet in Savelletri, where you sleep in masserie with a golf course, that wine is not made locally.
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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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