Adare Manor Golf : When Everything Is Just Right Some golf courses are really good. A few are exceptional. And then there's Adare Manor, which operates on a different level entirely—one of those places that immediately resets your baseline for what modern championship golf can be. It's set deep in this massive estate in County Limerick, centered around a neo-Gothic manor that looks like something from a period drama. The course combines classic Irish parkland landscape with c

Castelconturbia Golf : Northern Italy's Understated Gem There are courses that announce themselves loudly, and then there are places like Castelconturbia where serious architecture, natural beauty, and championship credentials just quietly coexist without fanfare. It's in Piedmont's rolling countryside north of Milan, close to Lake Maggiore. The experience feels understated and sophisticated in equal measure—a course that reveals its qualities gradually rather than hitting yo

Aphrodite Hills is, in my experience, the only golf course in Cyprus that can genuinely be described as championship level.

Situated right next to Santa Clara Golf, Marbella Golf & Country Club is a course that surprised me more than once — and not always in a good way.