If not for Lavinia Biagiotti and her late mother, Laura, the eyes of the golf world would not be on Marco Simone, a 25-minute drive outside the center of Rome.
Lavinia Biagiotti’s parents bought the property in 1978 — the year she was born — and then decided to build the golf course on it.The only shame to this celebrated week for the Biagiotti family is that Laura didn’t live to see the grand proceedings on the stage she dreamed about and created. She died in 2017.
In essence, Marco Simone this week will serve as the runway for the most popular and intense team-golfing competition in the sport. The famous astronomer Galileo Galilei once lived in the castle, and there are remains of prehistoric fossils that date back 300,000 years in the dungeon. The person charged with taking care of the Marco Simone golf course is also a woman — 33-year-old for Spaniard Lara Arias is the golf course superintendent, a rarity in a field dominated by men.
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