GOLF CLUB CA’ DELLA NAVE
Known by many as Cà della Nave, this golf club goes also by the name Villa Grimani Morosini. In reality, it is an architectural complex that consists of several separate buildings enclosed within a single boundary wall.
This historically rich location is home to one of Northern Italy’s most important golf clubs, which features a 75 hectares golf course, an astonishing swimming pool and an 18th century noble villa and its outbuildings.
The golf club in Martellago is the first of the three courses designed in Italy by US athlete Arnold Palmer at the end of the 80s. Taking inspiration from nearby Venice, he made 27 holes among countless water hazards. While in the early years skilled players could save a few strokes by cutting across certain doglegs, today—now that the trees have grown—it’s far less easy to take such liberties. And beyond the lush vegetation, the game gets more challenging at every corner, with several imposing bunkers as obstacles.
GOLF CLUB VILLA CONDULMER
Villa Zerman was built by the Venetian patrician Condulmer family at the end of the 17th century, on the ruins of a 14th-century Benedictine monastery. Under Austrian dominion, the property was acquired by the powerful Graz family who had settled in Venice and Italianised their name to Grassi. They restored the villa entirely in the style of the period.
The villa was later acquired by the Tornielli family, an aristocratic family from Piedmont with a passion for classic music, who frequently hosted Giuseppe Verdi. It was in Villa Zerman that Verdi composed the famous La Traviata with a piano still preserved today.
In 1958, Villa Condulmer became an exclusive hotel and in February 1960 it was turned into Golf Club Villa Condulmer with the first nine holes designed by architect John Harris. Thereafter, thanks to the hotel’s concession of the former winter garden and the structure that today houses the caddie master, the first Club House was created. This was followed by the purchase of the building that is now the current Club House. Then came the expansion; the wing dedicated to the locker rooms; the restaurant; the terrace; and the second nine holes designed by Marco Croze. The nine-hole executive golf course and the renovation of the Championship course turf with Bermuda Grass, complete the club as it stands today. Stepping through the gates of Golf Club Villa Condulmer means experiencing the very history of golf in the Veneto region.
