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Top 15 golf courses in Italy

15 celebrated courses in Italy, from historic links to spectacular resort layouts.

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15 golf courses

  1. 1
    Parkland

    Marco Simone Golf & Country Club

    Guidonia Montecelio

    Course outside Rome that hosted the 2023 Ryder Cup, the first held in Italy.

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  2. 2
    Parkland

    Circolo del Golf Roma Acquasanta

    Rome

    Italy's oldest golf club, founded in 1903, played beside Roman aqueduct ruins on the Appian Way.

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  3. 3
    Parkland

    Golf Club Milano

    Monza

    Historic 1928 course set among old trees inside the walled royal park of Monza.

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  4. 4
    Mountain & lakeside

    Villa d'Este Golf Club

    Montorfano

    Wooded 1926 course beside Lake Montorfano, a long-time host of the Italian Open.

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  5. 5
    Parkland

    Royal Park I Roveri

    Turin

    Club in the former royal hunting park of La Mandria with a Robert Trent Jones Sr course.

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    Coastal & clifftop

    Pevero Golf Club

    Porto Cervo

    Robert Trent Jones Sr course threading granite outcrops above the bays of the Costa Smeralda.

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    Resort

    Is Molas Golf Club

    Pula

    Resort course in southern Sardinia's hills near the sea, a former Italian Open venue.

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  8. 8
    Links

    Circolo Golf Venezia

    Venice Lido

    Course founded in 1928 among pines and dunes at the tip of the Lido, backed by Henry Ford.

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    Parkland

    Golf Club Biella Le Betulle

    Magnano

    Demanding course cut through birch and pine woods in the foothills of the Piedmont Alps.

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  10. 10
    Resort

    Verdura Resort

    Sciacca

    Resort with two Kyle Phillips courses along the Mediterranean shore of south-west Sicily.

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    Parkland

    Circolo Golf Ugolino

    Grassina

    Hilly 1933 course among cypresses and olive trees in the Chianti countryside south of Florence.

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  12. 12
    Resort

    Argentario Golf Resort

    Porto Ercole

    Course set in Mediterranean scrub and olive groves on the Monte Argentario promontory.

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  13. 13
    Resort

    Castelfalfi Golf

    Montaione

    Two courses surrounding a restored medieval hamlet in the Tuscan hills.

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    Mountain & lakeside

    Golf Club Cervino

    Breuil-Cervinia

    One of Europe's highest courses, played at around 2,000 metres beneath the Matterhorn.

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  15. 15
    Resort

    Donnafugata Golf Resort

    Ragusa

    Resort with two courses, one designed by Gary Player, amid carob and olive trees in south-east Sicily.

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