Roberto Van Heugten, emerging writer with many publications to his credit, writes of game on the pages of Italy4golf, in the column "Lost balls in Italy".
The narrative is different: in fact, in its pages it speaks of sport, but above all of territories and hospitality.
Dear fellow Trolleypushers!
I’ll introduce this letter in a way once was defined confidential text, one of those items that in times of email and selfdestroying chats is no longer used in human communication (I say: unfortunately).
This short story is dedicated to whom are so involved in game of golf that become use to loose loads of objects on his beloved courses.
When you spend your time jogging along golf courses observing, as I do, a complex of factors, such as the beauty of the course and its surroundings, the services that complete the experience, the territory, the traditions, the kitchen and the hospitality… the quality of played golf might drop in the background.
Spring begins to warm our hearts, dear fellow golfers.
April brings many parties and a lot of joy, with a great desire to resume playing great to recover muscle tone, skills on the field and a wonderful swing, much more elegant than the upcoming swimsuit season.
A golf traveler is certainly a peculiar individual.
Fundamentally he can be placed in two categories, of which I try to list in few lines the vices and virtues. Focusing on the first ones, since the second are generally less influent.
Sometimes Italy is quite strange.
It has so many biodiversity areas that sometimes it seems you haven’t travelled across or region nor an entire nation, but it seems you have entered another geological area.
Around twelve years ago I approached golf whit no agonistic perspectives.
At that time I used to trade on Italian market high quality decorative synthetic lawns – for gardens, roofs and terraces – when the dutch producer informed me that a beautiful products line for domestic golf was ready. He also informed me that the professional assortment was set and that it was specifically designed for golfclubs’ practice areas.
I know Tuscany. I lived there a long time ago and I traveled there many times for work and leisure, covering high and low the roads of Chianti, Val d’Orcia, Versilia and Apuan Alps, to mention only some of the wonders you can find in this region.
… about that time I was in a Tuscan golf course and I came home with an oil tin and wine bottles?
Emilia Romagna is a region that has always spoken for itself. There is no glimpse, panorama, tower, wall, castle, church or manor villa that does not have at least a few hundred years of stories to tell.
I am going to tell you the chronicle of a fantastic day at Franciacorta Golf Club. Sit comfortably in front of the screen after you have prepared an aperitif to consume while you will be reading these lines.
