Posts in Category: Ireland
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Royal Portrush Golf Club – Golf Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This
Royal Portrush Golf Club is rated #8 in the world by Golf Digest. Golf Magazine rates it as only #13. Considering that there are over 34,000 golf courses in the world I don’t think I’m going to quibble with whether Golf or Golf Digest is correct as I and seven of my mates are about […]
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Portstewart Golf Club – A Must Play Course in Northern Ireland
Today is day four of the Irish golf trip I have undertaken with seven other friends and we are headed for Portstewart Golf Club which our driver Barry McGuigan assures us will be a real challenge. If the course is as nice as the drive is then we are in for a treat. It is a beautiful morning […]
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Castlerock Golf Club – Welcome to Golf in Northern Ireland
It’s a cool rainy morning in Dublin and the weather forecast is not good. There is a vortex of rainy weather swirling around the Irish Sea drenching pretty well all of Northern Ireland, where we are headed in less than hour. Our destination is Castlerock Golf Club and according to the route I’ve downloaded it’s […]
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Portmarnock Golf Club – A Tough Test of Irish Golf Outside of Dublin
Today is day two of the eight day Irish golf tour. Yesterday four of us played Royal Dublin and were suitably impressed. Today all eight of the group will take on Dublin’s other legendary course, Portmarnock Golf Club and we will use caddies for this adventure. Unfortunately the weather is not as cooperative as yesterday and […]
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Royal Dublin Golf Club – A Great Place to Start an Irish Golf Trip
This is the first in a series of posts on a guy’s golf trip to Ireland starting with the Royal Dublin Golf Club, but first some preliminaries. Why Ireland? The group of guys I have been traveling with for many years go on an annual golf trip to United States in conjunction with watching an […]
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Merrion Square – A Must Visit Location in Dublin. Here’s Why.
Join me in exploring Merrion Square later in this post, but first a few words on why I’m here in the first place. This is the second day of a guys golf trip to Ireland. Yesterday we flew overnight from Toronto and after checking in at The Conrad, to avoid any chance of jet lag, we […]