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The Monsignor della Casa Country Resort is favourable situated to reach some of the most esteemed golf courses in Tuscany, which organize various level courses, private lessons and introduction to golf for children, in addition to host national and international competitions.

Poggio dei Medici Golf Club

Ugolino Golf Club

Parco di Firenze Golf Club

Le Pavoniere Golf Club

Montecatini Golf Club

The golf courses mentioned have special rates for our guests on the green fees

Poggio dei Medici Golf Club is just 7km from Monsignor della Casa, in the heart of Mugello (10 minutes by car) . The 18-holes 72 par course was established in 1992 as the result of a collaboration between a great golfer, Baldovino Dass, and an open-eyed architect, Alvise Rossi Fioravanti. golf in Tuscany
The course has wide practise facilities with a Driving Range, Putting and Pitching Greens; it is 6397 meters long: 5091 from the Ladies Tees and 6519 meters from the Championship Tees. ( A further 9 holes will be constructed in the next future). Opened in 1995, right from the beginning, it was recognised as the best new golf course by the Italian magazine "il Mondo del Golf" and it has been building an international reputation as one of the most prestigious in Italy. Lately it has won The Best Golf Club prize by Condè Nast Traveller, overtaking courses like K Club in Ireland and the Greenbrier in the USA. Poggio dei Medici played home to the Ladies Italian Open during the European Tour from 1999 to 2005.

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Ugolino Golf Club (40 minutes from the resort) was founded on the Via Chiantigiana, South of Florence, in 1933 and was designed by British architects Blandford and Gannon, who had also designed the course of Monza; they built a par 69 course that was to difficult because of the ups and downs, the trees and the small greens. Tuscany golfIn the 60's it was widen in a 72 par course by Piero Mancinelli. Looking at the scorecard, you might think at first this is an easy course because of its length, only 5676 meters. However Ugolino makes full use of natural characteristics of the area: cypress and olive trees, the slops following the magnificent scenery. These are the hazards that a golfer encounters on a course which is part of Italian golfing history and puts to the test all kind of players. It is not an accident if many excellent golfers were trained at Ugolino and so the course is an amusing but challenging test for players who look at accuracy rather than power.
Golf holiday Tuscany The Club House and the swimming pool were built by architect Gerardo Bosio, who designed a structure that, to this days, is enjoyable and fully operational and is one of the best examples of the rationalist architecture and it is protected by the Department of Fine Arts. Ugolino is central in the Italian golfing history: on its fairways along the Via Chiantigiana many competitions and national championships have taken place and players of both national and international reputation have played there. The trophies collected by the Ugolino Golf Club are many and important, it is impossible to quote all the golfers who have contributed to such success. Many international opens have taken place on the Ugolino course, the fondest memory being the Italian International Open of 1983, when Bernard Langer won after a passionate final play-off against Severiano Ballesteros and Ken Brown in a competition with players like Greg Norman, Mark James, Costantino Rocca, Baldovino Dassu and many other stars of the European Tour..

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Tuscany golf holiday Parco di Firenze Golf Club
(30 minutes from the resort) has born on a simple, but for our country even original, a few golfers idea to build an urban golf course in order to make golfing easy for Florence citizens. They selected Isolotto, a Florence area which has a little to recommend and where there was an unauthorized rubbish dump. In 2000 this group of friends, lead by the future President Giuliano Bagnoli, opened the sporting partnership Parco di Firenze Golf Club; in 2001 it had 150 members. The Club has rise to 500 FIG card-members (Italian Golf Federation) and about 600 members as it went along in 2004. Among many initiatives to get people interested in golfing, it has started the "Youth Club" which offers promotional rates for the under 18 in order to get them involved in this sport and improve their skills.

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Le Pavoniere Golf Club (45 minutes from the resort) is in the heart of Tavola park in Prato, 30km from Monsignor della Casa Country Resort. Golf club Tuscany
This Club is an 18 holes course designed by Arnold Palmer, it has 12 covered places and 30 open ones, Putting Green, Pitch Green and bunkers for practice. Crossing by many water hazards and broad rolling greens, the course is marked by its landscape and technical linearity. Its particular design allows the golfer to play in a relaxing way without losing site of game tactics. The Club House is the result of a clever renovation in the ancient Saint Leopold II Farmhouse, built by Leopold II Grand Duke of Tuscany.

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Montecatini Golf Club, an 18 holes 72 par course with a 5857 meters track in the middle of the Tuscan countryside, between Versilia coast and the beautiful cities of Florence, Lucca and Pisa, only 60km from Monsignor della Casa Country Resort (one hour by car). Tuscany Golf Club
Created on an estate that belonged to an ancient Tuscan family, it is a place with magnificent panoramas and of a bursting beauty thanks to the variety of blooming vegetation as well as the historical and cultural traces. Its track has some holes with an extraordinary technical and landscape appeal: the front nine are made by olive trees following the dog legs, the back nine, on the other hand, are framed by the maquis with its heathers, brooms and laurels. Two lakes make this track even more difficult.

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