Miss Virginia Costa

Admitted as an Associate Member (AEIGCA) in 2014; upgraded to Member (MEIGCA) in 2021.

2007-09 Graduate with Merit – Diploma in Golf Course Design

An outstanding record in competitive golf was a precursor to Virginia Costa’s entry into golf-course design. In both Italy and the United States, she left her mark as a skilled player. Costa knew her true passion always had been for golf-course design and turfgrass maintenance. In 1998, she earn a B.S. in Environmental Horticulture with a specialty in golf-course maintenance at the University of Florida.

Once returned to Italy, she started to collaborate with Hurdzan-Fry Environmental Golf Course Design. In 2004 she was project manager and co-designer with Dr. Hurdzan on the first Hurdzan/Fry golf course in Europe, I Roveri Royal Park Golf and Country Club. She worked with principal designer Dana Fry as co-designer and project manager on the reconstruction and restyling of the Double Tree Hilton – Acaya Golf Resort, in the region of Puglia, Italy.

Costa now devotes her considerable talent and experience to Fry/Straka Global Golf Design, leaving her signature on projects in Italy and throughout Europe.

Virginia Costa is also the agronomist of the Studio, thanks to her experience, as the turfgrass consultant and project manager for the Italian Major Soccer League (LNP-Lega Calcio), the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), and the highly-successful Juventus Football Team.