Hoiana Shores Golf Course was designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. and he expressed that he would ‘kill for a site like this’

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

There are golf courses that impress with conditioning, and others that impress with design. Antognolla Golf does something rarer — it overwhelms you with presence.

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

Club de Golf Alcanada, just outside Port d'Alcúdia, pairs a Robert Trent Jones Jr. design with a lighthouse view on almost every hole. October is the time to play it.