Golf Academy and Facilities

Tom Foster

Drawing on a wealth of experience from having played and coached golf on several continents over the past 30 years, Tom has established himself as a name in the golf coaching world. His knowledge base and dynamic approach have made him the preferred choice of many golfers looking to take their game to the next level.

Two years after joining Verdura in 2016, Tom created Italy’s only European Tour approved Performance Institute. With the latest technology at hand Tom can precisely analyse, fit and tailor the individual's unique physiological profile to their own personal golf swing.

He is a Level 2 Trackman Certified Instructor, 4D Motion and SAM Puttlab coach and works extensively with AboutGolf’s force plates helping people unlock their true potential through ground force biomechanics.

Odin Antonino Urso

A versatile young athlete, Odin Antonino Urso swapped football for golf at seventeen and within three years became a scratch golfer. His talent and tenacity have since made him a respected name on the national scene. Odin’s career to date has seen him reach the quarter-finals of the Italian Match-Play Championships and win five national tournaments and an absolute Italian team championship, for which he received a bronze award for sporting merit from the International Olympic Committee.

Level 2 Trackman certified, and with two years’ experience as a Golf Coach at the Le Vigne Golf Club in Villafranca di Verona, Odin joins Verdura Resort to help the next generation of golfers tee off their fledgling careers.