The drive up to Castelconturbia takes you through rolling hills and mature forest, and you get a sense of what is coming. It does not fully prepare you, though. At the clubhouse the meadows and woods only hint at the course. It reveals itself slowly, and it never shouts about what it has. Some courses are peacocks. Castelconturbia is the other kind. It has serious architecture, a lot of natural beauty and enough room to host championships, and it does very little to promote a

The Mountain Course at Castelfalfi is one of the toughest rounds in Tuscany: steep slopes, awkward lies and big elevation changes on almost every shot.

La Bagnaia Golf Club lies just outside Siena, surrounded by vineyards, olive groves and open farmland that stretches toward the horizon.