Pietrabuona Farms is Stella's Bed and Breakfast and vacation rental homes property located about 20 km from Lucca ( Lucca is about 20 km from Pisa). Stella is a wonderful lady and a great ambassador for disc golf. She welcomes you. She has loaner discs. She has a pro shop on site stocked with both new and used discs. She gives you a map, offers you wine afterward and THEN either she personally escorts you up to the course or her assistant does. She had her assistant, Patricia, lead us up the steep winding road to the course. It's maybe 3 km up the road.

The course is set in an old olive grove on a very steep side of a hill. There are a couple of course signs on the way. The tee pads are concrete blocks, complete with weeds growing up through the cracks. The tee signs are laminated giving you the hole number, a basic map and the distance in meters. Do I need to explain to the readers again how to convert meters to feet?

There are some fun throws to be had here. # 9 is a fun, twisting hyser going slightly downhill.

Most of the holes are short, around 160' or 50-55 meters. Olive trees are the main obstacle here, as well as fatigue and the fear of throwing an Annie downhill three terraces or more.

The course is fairly overgrown. The grass is high in places.

With the course built on terraced land, you're basically following these terraces. Sometimes, it's very steep when you're climbing up to the next terraced area. I mean steep, like scrambling up hands and feet in places. I was exhausted after my round.

I never found the # 5 basket. According to my map, it should have been set back among a thicket of olive trees but I couldn't locate it.

Several of the laminated tee signs are either missing or weathered badly making them impossible to read.

Location and ease of getting here. From Lucca, I rented (way overpriced) a car and my wonderful wife used google maps to navigate the 20 km to get here. Once, we were close, we talked to to three people, with different levels of success, before finding a young girl who spoke a little better English. She gave us the final directions.

Stella is such a sweetheart, I hate to diminish this course in any way but if the course was located in the US, it would merit 1 star, but because it's the only listed course in Italy, I'll give it a 2 and because Stella is so proud of her course and so incredibly wonderful, I'm bumping my score up to a 2.5.

Ciao!