Travel + Leisure crowns Italy tourist destination of the year for 2021. The famous New York monthly magazine read by almost 5 million people around the world has placed the Bel Paese on the top step of the most interesting destinations for the next year. Good news also for golf tourism.
After the day at Golf Club Castelfalfi, our journey to discover the best golf courses in Tuscany continues. So, early wake up this morning too and continental breakfast to face a new golf course: the Royal Golf La Bagnaia, a few kilometres from Siena.
When you will be reading these lines, the 77th Open of Italy will probably have already been played at the Chervò Golf Hotel & SPA Resort San Vigilio. At most there will be few days, or hours, away from the first tee shot of the tournament. As it will be, the atmosphere of waiting today is all mine.
Tero Parkkinen FAM trip continues with the Florentine stage: on Wednesday 15 Tero and Alberto compete on the course of Le Pavoniere Golf & Country Club in Prato. The day is not the best, but this perhaps makes the game even more exciting. Despite the grey day and a very wet field, in fact, Arnold Palmer’s unmistakable architectural design makes this field very challenging, even if at first glance it appears simple! Water obstacles and bunkers are always lurking and you need a lot of attention if you don’t want to end up in situations from which it is difficult to recover …
Tero Parkkinen, Finnish Italy4golf ambassador and thirty years journalist specialized in golf, comes to Italy to test the quality of our Experiences first hand. A five-day FAM trip accompanied with great pleasure by the Italy4golf team between Lombardy and Tuscany, a tour to discover the best Italian golf courses and some selected local excellences.
Sommelier Roberto Matetich tells us the secrets of Lugana, the official wine of the 77th Italian Open
The Milanese September temperatures, much softer than the oppressive heat of the nearby August but still far from the autumnal greyness, encourage you to discover and discover. On this occasion, we went towards a rediscovery, participating in the “Armonie senza tempo” (Timeless Harmony) Masterclass, held by the Lugana DOC Consortium to tell the public about the lesser-known aspects of a wine that is often an underrated protagonist of our tables.
We leave early in the morning for a golf destination that has always been in our wishes: the Castelfalfi Golf Club, in the heart of Tuscany. It had been a long time, in fact, that my wife Ilaria and I wanted to take a holiday in these areas and play at Castelfalfi, for two excellent reasons:
To lose balls is the first lesson the golfer learns at the beginning of his entrance in the course.
Consorzio Lago di Garda Lombardia and Italy4golf have signed a partnership for the promotion of golf tourism on Lake Garda. A collaboration that arises almost spontaneously as a result of the common purpose and mission of these two subjects.
“…Salve, o venusta Sirmio, atque ero gaude: gaudete vosque, o Lydiae lacus undae: ridete, quicquid est domi cachinnorum!”
(“… Hello, dear Sirmione, rejoice of your lord; and rejoice you, Lydian waves of the lake: all of you echo and laugh of the house!” – Caio Valerio Catullo)
