The mild, gentle climate of Lake Garda permits golfing all year round. Many tournaments, in fact, take place in the winter. Playing golf in the extraordinarily beautiful scenery of Lake Garda is a memorable experience: the cypresses, vineyards, olive groves and centuries-old oak forests harmoniously blend with the blue lake, forming that typical Garda landscape that has always been loved by the foreign artists and poets who stayed here. Numerous golfing buffs come here to play on the many fine golf courses of varying difficulty. Many attractions and activities make a vacation in this unique setting all that more special for the people who consider golfing a moment of relaxation, a sport and a true passion.
Garda Golf
The temperate climate of Lake Garda means that golf can be played throughout the year. The Garda golf greens are in good condition even in winter. Only the changing countryside indicates the season. Cypress trees, vines, olive groves, century-old oak trees provide a beautiful backdrop with the lake below, made famous by artists and poets.The wide, green fairways are well kept and wind over the slopes, past ponds and sand traps that make the course technically challenging even for the export golfer. Garda golf is considered one of the most interesting and challenging golf courses designed in the last ten years. It stretches out over around 250 acres of land and was designed by the English architects Cotton, Penning Steel & Partners. The Garda golf Country club covers 27 holes between Rocca di Malerba, Soiano Castle and the hillsides of Valtenesi with many breathtaking nature spots.
Arzaga Golf
Two world-famous names were asked to help design the course, with two very different styles: Jack Nicklaus Junior followed his father's use of spectacular features, requiring a great deal of work, for an American type of course, whilst Gary Player designed an English-style course with far fewer changes to nature. Arzaga therefore provides two options, with quite different challenges to choose from. The course built by Nicklaus is both easy and difficult, due to the five tee-positions and enormous variation in pin locations on the greens. Both professionals and amateurs can enjoy the course, with its wide open spaces, huge bunkers and large ponds. The greens play fast and are difficult to read.The 143-meter 3-par seventh is a great hole across water. The 493-meter par 5 fourteenth is a technical challenge. From the tee you need to miss the bunker to the right, and the second shot is over a pond to the fairway.
The chip shot to the green needs to stay out of the steep sand traps. The par 4 eighteenth back to the club house is a fantastic hole with the tee overlooking Palazzo Arzaga and two ponds to the left running the length of the fairway to complicate the tee-shot. The 9-hole course designed by Gary Player is more natural, shorter and narrower, and requires precision rather than strength. The rough is quite thick and the bunkers have 90° grass-covered edges. Many of the greens slope steeply. The 557-meter 5-par fourth hole is huge with a delicate green, defended by a left side bunker and pond on the right. Palazzo Arzaga is the focus of both courses.
Via Carducci, 3
25080 Manerba del Garda (Bs)
Lake Garda - Italy
Tel. 0039-02 39292035
Fax. 0039 02 39292035
info@gardatravelweb.it
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