Verdura, Sicily

Le Querce Golf Club

Italy, Rome
5 (4)
Designer: Jim Fazio
Course Opened: 1990

Le Querce is a largely forgettable Italian course designed by American Jim Fzaio close to the city of Rome. The course opened in 1990 and has already dated quite badly, likely because of low budgets and a lack of maintenance understanding from course management. Problems though of design are also ever-present, looks like a mailed-in US creation, with little care or attention given to ground contours and holes tending to be either straight up or straight down the slopes without attempting to provide interesting or original golf content. The par three 3rd is one example of poor design, the hole dropping straight down to a square green without any shape or definition.

The mounding at Le Querce is artificial looking, the bunkering and some driving hazards and pinched fairways are poorly positioned and generally there is a feeling that the designer didn't take much care here. The tough holes are OK, but are only tough because of length and bunkers rather than any strategic design elements.

Despite being close to Rome, there isn't any atmosphere here and golfers with an appetite for quality will be disappointed.

 

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