So I’ve been back from the north-west of Ireland for a week now and have still only played one round in Ontario this year — can’t imagine the last time that happened. Maybe 20 years ago? I remember playing many times in mid...
Category - Golf Course Reviews – Ireland
Course Reviews: Lahinch (Mackenzie, Hawtree) and Doonbeg (Greg Norman) It had rained for at least one hole every round we’d played by the time we reached the end of our trip, we’d discovered Tim Hortons on the Emerald Isle, and...
Review: Carne Golf Links (Belmullet, Ireland) Designer: Eddie Hackett “This feels like we’re at the edge of the world.” That was uttered by the inimitable Yannick Pilon, the learned golf architect from Montreal, as we...
Courses: Co Sligo and Enniscrone Sometimes expectations get in the way when you approach a golf course you haven’t played before. You come at it anticipating greatness, and occasionally find out it doesn’t measure up. Golf courses are like...
Day Three Ballybunion Old and Cashen After a two-hour drive from Waterville, we pulled into Ballybunion in the late afternoon, scheduled to play the Cashen Course, a much-discussed design by Robert Trent Jones that has fans and, well, many...
Day Two: Waterville has the reputation as being an American experience. It was created by an American, and from the time you roll into the parking lot (in our case after about a half-hour drive from Glenbeigh we found the place without a car in...
Dooks Golf Club, Glenbeigh, Ireland It has been a long day. Not that I’m complaining. After all, my last overseas trip started with a cop threatening to knock out my teeth. So after an overnight flight, and a two-hour drive, I was surely worn...
Starting Monday, G4G is going overseas — to the western coast of Ireland for a lot of golf and a fair bit of driving. In the company of two golf architects, I’ll be traveling to see 9 courses in a week’s time. Our trip starts...
(This is the final feature in a series on golf in Ireland stemming from a trip I undertook in 2004. The first segment of the series can be found here. Other features covered Portmarnock, the European Club, County Louth and Portrush.) Final Day:...