Fifteen minutes from the Old Town, the city falls away and the foothills of the Caucasus begin — and folded into them is Georgia's first championship golf course. Tbilisi Hills opened in 2017 as something the country had never had: a full eighteen-hole parkland course, designed to international standard, with the mountains as a permanent backdrop.
The layout is the work of Finnish architect Lassi-Pekka Tilander, who used the land rather than flattening it. The holes rise and fall across some 140 metres of elevation, threading between slopes and water, so that almost every tee offers a different view and a different problem. It is a handsome, demanding course, and on a clear day the snow line of the Greater Caucasus sits on the horizon beyond the greens.
There is a clubhouse for lunch, a practice academy, and equipment to hire, so a round can be arranged with little notice — a half-day that feels a world away from the city you drove out of.
Whether you play off single figures or simply want a walk in remarkable country with a club in your hand, the concierge can book a tee time, arrange clubs, and have a car waiting. Morning light is the most generous; the mountains are clearest before the heat builds.
