Posts in Category: Ireland
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K Club – Incredible Golf, Incredible Luxury
This is my final post from last September’s golf trip to Ireland. We started off playing the out of this world Old Head of Kinsale in absolutely perfect conditions and we will be finishing at Ireland’s most luxurious golf resort, the legendary K Club in Kildare, not far from Dublin. During our stay we will […]
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Doonbeg – Playing Trump’s Irish Fantasy
This is my fifth review of golf courses in southwest Ireland based on a trip there in September 2019 with Barry McGuigan’s former company Golf NI. We started out with the fabulous Old Head of Kinsale followed by Arnold Palmer’s magnificent course at Tralee. Unfortunately at our third course, Waterville the weather was so bad […]
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Lahinch – Playing the World’s Craziest Par Three
This is my fourth post from last fall’s amazing golf trip to southwest Ireland with Golf Travel NI which unfortunately doesn’t exist as of right now. We did three trips with them and enjoyed them all immensely. Hopefully owner Barry McGuigan will have his new venture up and running for our next trip. We have […]
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Ballybunion – Why Tom Watson Loves It
This the third post from last fall’s amazing golf trip to southwest Ireland with Barry McGuigan’s Golf Travel NI. The first post featured the one and only Old Head of Kinsale and the second, Arnold Palmer’s Irish masterpiece, Tralee. In between we played Waterville, but the weather was so nasty that I couldn’t get a […]
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Tralee – Arnie’s Irish Coastal Masterpiece
Tralee Golf Club was the third of eight courses I and a group of friends played in Ireland in a trip arranged through our friend Barry McGuigan of Golf Travel NI. The first course was the magnificent and frankly on this trip, incomparable Old Head which I described hole by hole in this post. The […]
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Old Head – Hole by Hole in Golfing Heaven
What happens when you combine one of the most beautiful pieces of property in all Ireland steeped in over 3,000 years of history with eighteen holes of golf? You get what, for the avid golfer, is nothing short of heaven on earth. There are not enough superlatives to describe the Old Head Golf Links located […]
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Ardglass -The Greatest Course You’ve Never Heard Of
It’s with a twinge of sadness I’m writing this post, because it is the last on my long anticipated Irish golf odyssey. These trips are like watching a speeding car come at you down a long flat highway – it seems to take forever to get there, but once it does it roars past in […]
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Royal County Down – Playing the # 1 Course on the Planet
Yesterday we played Rory McIlroy’s home course Holywood, just outside Belfast and afterwards we headed for the resort town of Newcastle, not far from the Irish border. It has a lovely location on the Irish Sea at the base of the Mourne Mountains, the highest in Northern Ireland, and the place where many of the […]
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Holywood Golf Club – Why You Must Play Rory’s Home Course
This is day 6 of the Irish golf trip with myself and seven friends from Maritime Canada and as Monty Python would say, “Now for something completely different”. We are headed for Holywood Golf Course in the Belfast suburb of Holywood (pronounced Hollywood and not holey-wood) which is the home course of sometime world number […]