Villa dEste Golf Course Montorfano

Full Description: The Villa dEste Golf Course was built in 1926 on the Como hills dominating the lake of Montorfano and in the suggestive and romantic perimeter of more than 30,ooo pinetrees, chestnut-trees and birchtrees, incomparable natural beauty, a corner of Paradise that has been and it is one of the destination of many refined golfers. In the "Gold Book" of the Club there are prestigious signatures, like King Leopold of Belgium and Queen Liliane De Retby, their son Baldovino, Edward of England, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Costantino of Greece and most of the aristocratic names of Europe, without forgetting the populars names like Clark Gable and Bing Crosby. In 1925 The Society, owner of the Grand Hotel Villa d'Este di Crnobbio, gave commission to a committee composed by Lord Alberto Bellinzaghi Locatelli, Amerigo Ponti and Guglielmo D'Ombrè to find the area, to design and built a golf course.

Roberto Tronchetti Prover, with the help from all the members of the club, brillantly went through this hard task of the reconstruction, he flung again the social and sport life of the club, he arranged to bring the club back to the position that always belong to the club in the history of the game of golf. Among the secretaries that left a track in the life of the Villa dEste Golf Course, the first place belong to Willy D'Ombrè Secretary from 1950 to 1972. To continue the tradition of great secretaries of Villa d'Este now has been called Gianluigi Orecchioni. Another record that Villa d'Este hold, is the great names of professionals that has been working in the Club. After a long parenthesis of the two English Jim Wilson and W. Horne founders of the "Golf School" in Montorfano, it was the turn of Giovanni Locatelli, the big Pietro Manca, Ugo Grappasonni, two times winner of the Italian Open, Alfonso Angelini, than Luciano Grappasonni, Mario Napoleoni, Italo Tremolada, Luciano Marsala, Aldo Casera and Carlo Grappasonni. The teachers in activity now are Giancarlo Frigerio, Pietro Molteni and Giovanni Ciprandi that will continue the tradition of the "Golf School" in Villa.

Telephone +39 31 200 200 Fax +39 31 200 786

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