Italy
There is still something faintly aristocratic about Italian golf, perhaps not yet a sport for all, but one played by a growing number of people in Italy. If quantity is missing, quality is certainly not. There are plenty of excellent courses in the north of Italy, especially around Milan and the lakes. The clubhouse restaurants serve great Italian cuisine - who could want for more. Generally spike shoes can be worn in & around the club house (just take a look at some of the wooden floors). To make the most of your golfing trip, and to help in your planning, you can look up the location of the best courses in Italy on our customised maps.
Visitors welcome
Bari
Original design by Italian course architect David Mezzacane (1998); remodelled by Hurdzan/Fry Design (Dr Michael Hurdzan & Dana Fry) (2007).
Visitors welcome
Venice
Visitors welcome
Milan
Visitors welcome
Florence (Firenze)
Robert Trent Jones Jr
Visitors welcome
Rome
David Mezzacane & Baldovino Dassù
Visitors welcome
Verona
Jack Nicklaus II (18 hole course); Gary Player (9 hole course).
Visitors welcome
Venice
Wkends restrictd
Milan
Visitors welcome
Milan
Visitors welcome
Turin
Original design by English golf course architect John S.F. Morrison (of Colt, Alison & Morrison).
Visitors welcome
Milan
Robert von Hagge
Visitors welcome
Milan
Robert von Hagge
Visitors welcome
Bologna
Visitors welcome
Venice
Visitors welcome
Milan
Current three nine-hole loops designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1986).
Visitors welcome
Florence (Firenze)
Rainer Preissmann and Wilfried Moroder.
Visitors welcome
Rome
Visitors welcome
Milan
Rsrt guests only
Siena
Tom Weiskopf
Visitors welcome
Rimini
Visitors welcome
Verona
Kurt Rossknecht
Visitors welcome
Livorno
Visitors welcome
Catania
Franco Piras
Visitors welcome
Catania
Gary Player
Visitors welcome
Milan
Visitors welcome
Verona
C.K. "Ken" Cotton, Frank Pennink & Donald Steel.
Visitors welcome
San Remo
Wkends restrictd
Rome
George and Jim Fazio
Visitors welcome
Trieste
Marco Croce
Visitors welcome
Milan
Visitors welcome
Catania
Visitors welcome
Cagliari
Visitors welcome
Cagliari
Piero Mancinelli (of Cotton, Pennink & Partners)
Visitors welcome
Florence (Firenze)
Arnold Palmer
Visitors welcome
Milan
Visitors welcome
Milan
Visitors welcome
Trieste
Wkends restrictd
Rome
Jim Fazio
Weekdays only
Milan
Visitors welcome
Bologna
Visitors welcome
Milan
Visitors welcome
Venice
Visitors welcome
Milan
Biratti Cavalsani & Jim Fazio
Visitors welcome
Milan
Biratti Cavalsani & Jim Fazio
Wkends restrictd
Rome
C.K. (Ken) Cotton with later revisions by Jim Fazio.
Weekdays only
Venice
Visitors welcome
Verona
Jim Fazio
Visitors welcome
Rome
Unknown
Wkends restrictd
Rome
Visitors welcome
Cagliari
Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Visitors welcome
Florence (Firenze)
Baldovino Dassù and Alvise Rossi Fioravanti
Visitors welcome
Livorno
Visitors welcome
Genoa
Unknown
Visitors welcome
Rimini
Visitors welcome
Rimini
Canadian golf course architect Graham Cooke with Luigi Rota Caremoli.
Wkends restrictd
Rome
Unknown
Visitors welcome
Siena
Robert Trent Jones II (lead designer Ty Butler).
Visitors welcome
Turin
Hurdzan/Fry Design (lead designer David Whelchel).
Visitors welcome
Turin
Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Visitors welcome
Bari
Visitors welcome
San Remo
Peter Gannon
Visitors welcome
Rome
Visitors welcome
Rome
Robert Trent Jones II (lead designer Ty Butler).
Visitors welcome
Turin
Original design at this location by English course architect John S. F. Morrison (1956). Developed into 27 holes and then 36 by Italian designer Marco Croze. Blue course renovated by Graham Cooke of Canada (1997).
Visitors welcome
Turin
Original design at this location by English course architect John S. F. Morrison (1956). Developed into 27 holes and then 36 by Italian designer Marco Croze.
Visitors welcome
Livorno
Visitors welcome
Florence (Firenze)
Visitors welcome
Milan
Visitors welcome
Venice
Visitors welcome
Palermo
Kyle Phillips
Visitors welcome
Palermo
Kyle Phillips
Visitors welcome
Verona
Cdr John Harris
Visitors welcome
Milan
Peter Gannon
Tournaments:
Women’s major championships: the month of June sees two women’s majors: the US Women’s Open (June 3-6), with A Lim Kim defending, and the Women’s PGA Championship (June 24-27), with Sei Young Kim defending.
Senior PGA Championship: the revered Southern Hills in Oklahoma hosts the 81st staging of this event (May 27-30); Ken Tanigawa holds the title from its last playing in 2019.
Who's Who:
Phil Mickelson: in winning the 2021 PGA Championship, the world’s most famous “leftie” became the oldest winner of a golf major championship.
Hideki Matsuyama: became the first Japanese professional to win a men’s major championship, when he triumphed in this year’s Masters Tournament.
New 27-hole golf complex to be built in southern Belgium
A new golf complex in southern Belgium, close to the border with Luxembourg, will start construction in June 2021.
American Dunes opens for play following Nicklaus transformation
Nicklaus Design has transformed the former Grand Haven Golf Club in Michigan into the American Dunes Golf Club, a new public course that is now open for play
New course opens for play at Barnbougle
Bill Coore designs 14-hole layout with “sporty” holes on dune ridge above Lost Farm (golf carts allowed).
Gamble Sands opens short course:
David McLay Kidd’s 14-hole QuickSands short course has opened for play at Gamble Sands in Brewster, Washington.
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