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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
Poggio dei Medici Golf
Club is just 7km from Monsignor della Casa, in the heart
of Mugello. The 18-holes 72 par course was established in 1992 as
the result of a collaboration between a great golfer, Baldovino
Dassù, and an open-eyed architect, Alvise Rossi Fioravanti. 
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 Condé 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.
Ugolino Golf Club 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.  In
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.
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.
Parco di Firenze Golf Club 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.
Le Pavoniere Golf Club is in the heart of Tavola
park in Prato, 30km from Monsignor della Casa Country Resort. 
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.
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. 
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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