Il Pelagone

Il Pelagone sits in the Maremma, the wild coastal strip of southern Tuscany that spent centuries as malarial marshland before being drained and reclaimed in the 20th century. The result is a landscape unlike the manicured cypress-and-vineyard postcard most visitors expect of Tuscany — rougher, more elemental, with scrub oak, macchia mediterranea, and the Colline Metallifere (the Metal-Bearing Hills) rising behind Gavorrano, a town historically tied to iron pyrite mining. Golf here feels genuinely embedded in that landscape rather than imposed on it.

The course itself plays through hilly, wooded terrain, with elevation changes that reward local knowledge and punish lazy club selection. The routing makes good use of the natural contours of the Maremma hills, and the vegetation gives holes a secluded, almost private character even when the course is busy. It's an appealing destination for golfers touring the Grosseto province who want something more rugged than the flatter resort layouts along the coast.

The broader area offers real texture for a golf trip: Etruscan ruins, medieval hilltowns like Massa Marittima, thermal baths at Saturnia, and the Tyrrhenian coast all within easy reach of the clubhouse.