Ugolino golf course Grassina

Full Description: The Ugolino golf course they drew was par 69 but was considered difficult, owing to the ups and downs, the many trees and the small greens. In the sixties the course was turned into a par 72 by Piero Mancinelli. The Tourist Board at the time considered golf to be of great attraction for tourists, so much so that signs devoted to Florence were spread throughout Italy with the simple wording: “Florence: 18 hole golf course”. Ugolino was founded on the Via Chiantigiana in 1933 and was designed by British architects Blandford and Gannon who had also designed the course at Monza near Milan.

The trophies collected by the Ugolino Golf Course are many and important; it is not easy to name each and every player who has contributed to such success. Many international opens have taken place on the Ugolino course, the fondest memory being the Open Internazionale d'Italia 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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