Touch down at Amerigo Vespucci International, throw your clubs in the back of the hire car, and follow signs to Pisa. If the navigator does her stuff, you can be on the first tee at Le Pavoniere within the half hour. It might be wise to allow longer, though: not only to wind down, take on fuel and warm up, but also because the club is discreetly signposted through the outskirts of Prato. This unpromising approach makes Le Pavoniere all the more satisfying: a fashionable and stylish modern club with an excellent restaurant, lots of Ferraris in the car park, and a thoroughbred Arnold Palmer-designed course of high quality, tucked away in a beautiful park where unwanted din and unsightly sprawl recede. The round starts quietly, but don't be fooled: Arnie soon cranks up the pressure with a succession of water hazards that ask searching questions of nerve and technique, especially if we try to answer them from the back tee. Strong players who are on their game will relish the back nine, and probably want to play it again. Unlike most other Tuscan courses Le Pavoniere is a flat layout, and a pleasure to walk.

Par 73 6338m
From €60