Beyond the fancy hospitality tents, the Ryder Cup’s food scene is decidedly local at the Marco Simone club outside Rome. There’s an “APECESARE” food truck named after Julius Caesar selling “Street Food Romano,” where the menu highlight is a carbonara burger — a spinoff on Rome’s most famous pasta dish — with Damini beef, carbonara sauce, guanciale,...
READ MOREFirst came the castle. Then the golf course. The nearly 300,000 fans descending on the Marco Simone club for the Ryder Cup this week will be able to see the 11th-century castle with the same name from various points of the course — it’s wedged between the sixth and eighth holes and has a big Italian flag waving from its tower — but they won’t be ab...
READ MOREFrom September 28 2023, 18:00 To September 28 2023, 19:00. IIC-NY 686 Park Avenue, NY. Free entrrance. The fall of 2023 marks Italy’s debut on the world stage of golf as it hosts the 44th Ryder Cup Matches, played between 12-man teams from the United States and Europe. This year’s Ryder Cup will be contested from September 29 to October 1 over the...
READ MOREI recently had the opportunity to play the newly redesigned course where the 2023 Ryder Cup will be played—Marco Simone Golf & Country Club on the outskirts of Rome. Twenty-two years earlier almost to the day, I had enjoyed an older version of Marco Simone on an assignment to write about The Eternal City’s golf and eating options. That trip introdu...
READ MOREAlmost one hundred years after the first edition was played Worcester CC, Worcester, Massachusetts, the Ryder Cup will arrive for the first time in Italy, where golf is not among the most popular sports but since the beginning of the new millennium has won thousands of new fans. Waiting for the two selections from the United States and Europe will...
READ MOREItaly is organising two special golfing events in Rome and Milan this weekend in preparation for hosting the Ryder Cup later this year for the first time. The first event in the "Road to Rome 2023" programme, designed to let people discover golf and to promote the sport, will be held in Rome's Villa Borghese, on Via delle Magnolie, and in Milan's P...
READ MOREEurope’s Ryder Cup team usually relies on teamwork and unity to challenge the powerhouse American squad. For next year’s edition on the outskirts of Rome, European captain Henrik Stenson might use history — ancient history — for motivation, too. On his first trip to Italy since being named captain two months ago, Stenson had the colosseum opened ju...
READ MOREAn 11th-century castle. A grove of olive trees. The remains of an ancient Roman villa. Views of St. Peter’s Basilica on the horizon. The terrain surrounding and comprising the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club on Rome’s outskirts that will host the 2023 Ryder Cup is quintessential Italy. And no one knows that better than fashion designer Lavinia B...
READ MOREItalians call their home country il bel paese for good reason. “The Beautiful Country” more than lives up to such a lofty moniker with miles of gorgeous coastlines, soaring mountains, and lush terrain stretching from the tip of the boot in the south to the peaks of the Alps in the north. Italy is synonymous with incredible food, glorious wine, anci...
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