Marco Simone Golf and Country Club (also known as Golf Marco Simone) is a
golf course
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in
Guidonia,
Rome
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, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
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,
Italy
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. It is 10 miles from the city centre of Rome and has 2 golf courses, an 18-hole Championship Course and a 9-hole Resort Course. In 2015 it won the bid to host the
2023 Ryder Cup.
History
The golf club was named after the castle of Marco Simone.
The castle was a
Roman
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fortified
manor farm. The tower was built approximately in the year 1000 and later in the Middle Ages additional buildings built around it.
In the 1970s
Laura Biagiotti
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Early life
Biagiotti was born in Rome on 4 August 1943. Her mother Delia Soldaini Biagiotti was a successful dressm ...
, the
Italian
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high fashion designer, and her husband Gianni Cigna both lived in the restored castle. By 1989 the golf course had been designed and built. The architects were Jim Fazio and David Mezzacane.
The golf course was the venue of the 1994 and 2021
Italian Open golf championships, which were won by
Eduardo Romero
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and
Nicolai Højgaard
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Amateur career
Hø ...
respectively.
Bidding for the 2022 Ryder Cup
Ryder Cup Europe only received four bids for the 2022 Ryder Cup when the bidding closed on 30 April 2015. On 14 December 2015, Rome announced that it was to host the 2022 Ryder Cup, beating off bids from Germany, Austria and Spain. On 8 July 2020, the
PGA Tour
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announced that the 2020 Ryder Cup was postponed by one year due to the impact of the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. This consequently pushed to 2022 Ryder Cup back one year to 2023.
References
External links
Official websiteThe official website of the 2022 Rome Ryder Cup bid*
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Golf clubs and courses in Italy
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