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
Rimini
Marco Croze & Alvise Rossi Fioravanti, in association with Baldovino Dassù.
Visitors welcome
Venice
Cdr John Harris & Marco Croze
Visitors welcome
Milan
Daniel Silva
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
European Golf Design
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Milan
John S. F. Morrison
Visitors welcome
Milan
Original 18 holes designed by English course architect C.K. "Ken" Cotton with Martin A.F. Sutton (1961). A third nine, the Magnetti-nine (Red?), added by Italian course architect Marco Croze and Australian pro golfer Tom Linskey (1988).
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Turin
Original design by English golf course architect John S.F. Morrison (of Colt, Alison & Morrison).
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Milan
Robert von Hagge
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Milan
Robert von Hagge
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Bologna
C.K. (Ken) Cotton and Cdr John Harris, with later revisions in 1998 by Peter Alliss.
Visitors welcome
Venice
Marco Croze
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Milan
Current three nine-hole loops designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1986).
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Florence (Firenze)
Rainer Preissmann and Wilfried Moroder.
Visitors welcome
Rome
Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Visitors welcome
Milan
Arnold Palmer
Rsrt guests only
Siena
Tom Weiskopf
Visitors welcome
Verona
Kurt Rossknecht
Visitors welcome
Livorno
David Mezzacane
(Closed in 2020)
Catania
Franco Piras
(Closed in 2020)
Catania
Gary Player
Visitors welcome
Milan
Pete Dye & Marco Croze
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Verona
C.K. "Ken" Cotton, Frank Pennink & Donald Steel.
Visitors welcome
San Remo
John Harris
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Rome
George and Jim Fazio
Visitors welcome
Trieste
Marco Croce
Visitors welcome
Milan
Marco Croze
Visitors welcome
Cagliari
Robert von Hagge
Visitors welcome
Cagliari
Piero Mancinelli (of Cotton, Pennink & Partners)
Visitors welcome
Florence (Firenze)
Arnold Palmer
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Milan
Jack Nicklaus
Visitors welcome
Milan
Franco Piras
Visitors welcome
Trieste
Marco Croze
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Rome
Jim Fazio & David Mezzacane (1991). Fully redesigned by European Golf Design (lead designer Dave Sampson), in collaboration with Jim Fazio's son Tom Fazio II (2020).
Weekdays only
Milan
Peter Gannon & Cecil Blandford
Visitors welcome
Bologna
Bernhard Langer
Visitors welcome
Milan
Luigi Rota Caremoli revised the course in the early 1990s.
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Venice
Tom Macauley
Visitors welcome
Milan
Biratti Cavalsani & Jim Fazio
Visitors welcome
Milan
Biratti Cavalsani & Jim Fazio
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Rome
C.K. (Ken) Cotton with later revisions by Jim Fazio.
Weekdays only
Venice
Cdr John Harris
Visitors welcome
Verona
Jim Fazio
Visitors welcome
Rome
Unknown
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Rome
P.B. Dye
Visitors welcome
Cagliari
Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Visitors welcome
Catania
Laid out by owner Luigi Rota Caremoli.
Visitors welcome
Florence (Firenze)
Baldovino Dassù and Alvise Rossi Fioravanti
Visitors welcome
Livorno
Giulio Cavalsani
Visitors welcome
Genoa
Unknown
Visitors welcome
Rimini
Brian Silva
Visitors welcome
Rimini
Canadian golf course architect Graham Cooke with Luigi Rota Caremoli.
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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
European Golf Design
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San Remo
Peter Gannon
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Rome
Ronald "Ron" Fream
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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
Keith Preston
Visitors welcome
Florence (Firenze)
Original design at Ugolino by Englishman Cecil Blandford and Irishman Peter Gannon (1933). Piero Mancinelli extended the course from a par-69 to a par-72 in the 1960s.
Visitors welcome
Milan
Peter Gannon & Cecil Blandford
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Venice
Cruikshank, a Scottish golf architect, laid out the original 9- holes in 1928. C.K. (Ken) Cotton added the second nine in 1951. In preparation for the 1974 Italian Open, Marco Croze made substantial revisions to the course.
Visitors welcome
Palermo
Kyle Phillips
Visitors welcome
Palermo
Kyle Phillips
Visitors welcome
Verona
Cdr John Harris
Visitors welcome
Milan
Peter Gannon
The Sentry: known for many years as the Tournament of Champions, the PGA Tour’s 2025 season-opener gets underway on Kapalua’s Plantation course (Jan 2-5). Chris Kirk defends.
Tournament of Champions: the LPGA Tour’s 2025 season is launched at Lake Nona with the their Tournament of Champions (Jan 30-Feb 2). The 2024 edition gave Lydia Ko her 20th LPGA Tour title.
Attahya Thitikul: also known as “Jeeno”, the Thai golfer won the LPGA Tour’s 2024 CME Group Tour Championship … and an eye-watering $4 million, the richest first-prize in women’s golf.
Rory McIlroy: scooped the 2024 European (DP World) Tour season-long Order of Merit title, joining Seve Ballesteros as a six-time winner of this prestigious award.
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club: With a clubhouse that might befit a Roman Emperor, and a golf course to match, you can be sure of a memorable outing at Rome's most talked about golf facility.
Jim Fazio's original layout was much changed to create a modern Ryder Cup course ... now one of the Eternal City's (and Italy's) most revered.
Here at Prince’s Golf Club you'll find 27 excellent holes of links golf. Just over the fence and sharing similar terrain is Royal St George’s; but Prince’s is far from overshadowed by its venerable neighbour. The three nine-hole loops at Prince's, laid out over gently undulating terrain, are sure to bring a smile of satisfaction to all lovers of links golf.
Stay&Play at Prince's: excellent onsite Lodge accommodation available
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