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The most recent 18-hole Ligurian course boasts an important signature, that of the American Robert von Hagge, designer of many award-winning courses in the world. Robert Von Hagge (1927-2010) built or modified with the firm he headed "von Hagge, Smelek & Baril" more than 250 courses around the world, including the famous Blue Monster at Doral in Miami, the Golf National in Paris (site of the 2018 Ryder Cup), Les Bordes on the Loire (rated among the best 3 European courses), Is Arenas and Bogogno in Italy. Charismatic and with almost aristocratic bearing, Von Hagge has built all his courses with particular attention to the different types of players: good players, medium handicappers and novices; sensitive almost to the extreme to design aesthetics, he nonetheless models the landscape and its natural morphology, keeping many of its characteristics intact. Its fields are picturesque.
At the St. Anna Golf Club you will discover a golf club with a genuine and reserved ambiance that is typically Ligurian, with the sea almost within reach in places and in others, hidden amongst the hills where the designer marked out the course.
The course is quite undulating and rewards precision rather than length. What is important is to place the ball well in order to attack the multi-level greens, large enough to change the game completely according to the position of the flag. This is no course for the lazy; so if you are, book a golf cart. There are many differences in level, especially on the front nine, and those 65 hectares of terrain winding through olive trees, oaks and pine trees can become exhausting.
