Golf Club Castelconturbia

In 1898 Couturbier Golf Course was the only golf course in Piedmont, when in Italy there existed only two.

E 'is recorded in some books that you keep a copy in Italy. It had been strongly backed by Count Gaspar Flights that, also famous for his frequent trips to Scotland, had managed to engage in the passion for golf his neighbor, Count Avogadro Collobiano, enough to build a field of nine holes on his estate . The modern course of 27 holes, designed and built by Robert Trent Jones Sr. was built on an area of ​​over one million square meters, including and expanding the area of ​​the existing 9-hole golf course, in an ideal area of ​​old trees, streams, lakes and gentle undulations of the ground, to shape, to trial by the same architect, in one of his most successful fields that can be harmoniously integrated in the beautiful and untouched rural environment, on the massif of Monte Rosa background. Castelconturbia Golf Course is located in the County of Conturbia, near the seventeenth-century castle, upstream of Ticino, where the waters of Lake Maggiore gradually becomes the river, in a beautiful setting of nature intact.

The modern course has been ranked among the top 10 courses in the 'Continental Europe since 1987 and for all subsequent years he was awarded the Club with which the coveted awards honor the best courses in Italy until reaching in 2003 qualify as the best field. Hosted twice the Italian Open (1991 and 1998) and course record, 66, it is held by Jose Maria Olazabal and Costantino Rocca.