Name: Riva dei Tessali
Address: Viale dei Rosmarini, Riva dei Tessali Castellaneta Marina, 74011 Castellaneta Marina, Italy, Castellaneta, Castellaneta, Castellaneta, 74011, Italy
Rating: 7

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Riva dei Tessali treated my friend and I like kings while we were there recently. Granted, it is the off-season, but we were amazed at the spacious, immaculate accomodations, the low price and the level of service. We stayed in the "Golf Residence," not the Golf Hotel. The residence is a two-story, 2BR, 2BTH townhouse overlooking the 10th and 11th holes of the old Riva course. It came with dinner (with wine) and breakfast for only 90 Euro per person. Golf was also outstanding, as Riva features a daily green fee which lets you play both courses, the old Riva and the new Metapunto for the same 38 Euro (carts are 20E, trolleys 2E, range balls 2E per bucket). Again, very reasonable. And the hotel shuttled us between the courses and even let us play Metapunto on the day it was closed -- so we had it all to ourselves! Of the two courses, Metapunto is by far in the better condition, with marvelous smooth, consistent fairways and decent greens (they were being seeded, so we had to make allowance for that). It is very LONG if you play it from the tips, which we did NOT. :-) It is a links style course, very open, and a lot of wind. The Riva course is in less fabulous shape, again allowances for the off season, but it was still a tough test and a scenic track. It is more of a resort course, with lots of trees, water in play on a handful of holes, and also fairly long, with some very sharp doglegs. Like most European courses, it is unforgiving for the inaccurate. The entire experience was fabulous. The service was the nicest I've had in southern Italy, the value for the money was exceptional. In fact, the only thing that wasn't outright cheap was the pro shop... bring your own golf balls, they want 15E for a sleeve of three Top Flights (we're talking US$8 for 30 balls at Walmart) and you WILL lose a few, like I said the course is unforgiving. I would also say, plan your trip for the off season. The weather in early February was short-sleeve mild and the courses were virtually empty (the closed Montepunto WAS empty) and I'm sure the service and prices were better due to the lack of guests.

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We were two fathers and sons, wanting a spring golf training camp while there is still snow on the ground in Sweden. Overall we were happy although we had a bit of bad luck.
Lodging: Excellent 2-bedroom, 2 bathroom apartments in 2 stories, just next to 10th and 13th tee, and the pitching area. We did not use the kitchen but it looked fine. We read a lot of reviews complaining about the need for renovations, but this was not the case at all. Only thing lacking was to have a number of English speaking TV channels.
Food: we had half board/pension and breakfast was very good, and the dinner even better. Great Italian food and not expensive drinks to that. The Snack bar at 10th tee very good lunch food.
Golf: unfortunately the winter was tough this year and the course was not in the shape it should be (this was mid-March). I assume the conditions are nomally way better. We played both Riva dei Tessali course, and the Metaponto. The former was better designed, especially the holes in the woods, some of them really great design and very challenging. Metaponto more spacious but not a bad course at all. Most important -- you can play as much as you want and there is very low load on the course. Driving range balls of low quality, but pitching area good.
Price/performance: we looked at many different options also in Spain, Portugal, Turkey and this was the most economical. If the course would have been in better shape we would have been extremely satisfied.

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