Golf courses in Sardinia

Sardinia is Italy's golfing island, a Mediterranean idyll where around five courses are scattered between the glamorous Costa Smeralda in the north and the wilder, beach-fringed coast of the south. The island's appeal is its scenery: granite headlands, fragrant maquis, pine and juniper, and water in shades of turquoise that few golf destinations can match. Courses here make the most of that natural drama, with holes that climb through Mediterranean hills, run alongside the sea or weave between dunes, rewarding golfers who come as much for the views as for the score.

The variety across the island is striking. In the north, Pevero Golf Club is the celebrated jewel of the Costa Smeralda, threading between granite boulders and shimmering bays, while in the south Is Molas Golf Club offers a longer, established championship test. Add the seaside character of Tanka Golf Club, the resort setting of Golf Club Puntaldia and the links-like dunes of Golf Club Is Arenas, and you have a compact circuit of real diversity. With a long, warm season and easy pairing with beaches and food, Sardinia is one of the Mediterranean's most seductive golf escapes.