Villa d'Este

Villa d’Este has been a luxury golf retreat for Europe’s upper classes for nearly 100 years. The course was built in 1926 in a forest just south of Lake Como in Italy’s northern Lombard region, with the majority of holes routed in an east-west orientation through a thick cover of trees. At just over 6,300 yards and a par of 69, it demands precision and tactical placement of the ball, especially into the small greens. The holes are each secluded moving through the lush tree cover across rising, tilting terrain, stylistically falling somewhere between Morfontaine in France and Olympic Club in San Francisco.