The Senior Italian Open is a men's professional

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

tournament for players aged 50 and above which is part of the

European Senior Tour The Legends Tour is the current branding of the European Senior Tour, a professional tour for male golfers aged 50 and over, run by the PGA European Tour. The tour was branded as the Staysure Tour for the 2018 and 2019 seasons after UK-based insur ...

schedule. It was played from 2004 to 2008 and then restarted in 2016. The tournament was originally played at GC Venezia, near

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, but has since been played at GC Arzaga on

Lake Garda Lake Garda ( it, Lago di Garda or ; lmo, label=Eastern Lombard, Lach de Garda; vec, Ƚago de Garda; la, Benacus; grc, Βήνακος) is the largest lake in Italy. It is a popular holiday location in northern Italy, about halfway between ...

and GC Udine,

Fagagna Fagagna ( fur, Feagne) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Udine in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about northwest of Udine. As of 2011, it had a population of 6,279 and an area of . ...

. Italy's most successful 20th century male golfer,

Costantino Rocca Costantino Rocca (born 4 December 1956) is an Italian golfer. He was long known as the most successful male golfer that Italy has produced, until the 2018 success of Francesco Molinari, who credited Rocca as an inspiration to him following his Ope ...

, made his senior debut at the 2007 edition of his home senior open.

Winners

Notes

References

External links

Coverage on the European Senior Tour's official site
{{European Seniors Tour European Senior Tour events Golf tournaments in Italy Recurring sporting events established in 2004 2004 establishments in Italy