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Abbeyleix Golf Club

  • 24-09-2008 9:25am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭


    Many of you played it? Have the chance to go and play it soon, but just wondering if it's worth the trip from Dublin. Looks fairly short and i think i remember someone saying the layout is poor. Anybody any thoughts on it?


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  • Subscribers Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭PhilipMarlowe


    I'm on record here as saying I'm not a fan so I won't say too much... It was 9 hole and went 18... The condition of the course was excellent... the holes that are good are excellent but there are a few nondescript holes that I wasn't impressed by... The 3rd is a fantastic short hole, only a gap wedge or thereabouts but downhill to a shallow green over water and if you go long it's almost impossible... The 17th is a lovely long downhill par 3 and the 18th is a fantastic tough uphill par 4 but for me there are too many weak holes in the middle. There is a nice drive-able par 4 uphill with a strongly 3-tiered green... the 12th?
    You won't be mad that you made the trip but IMO somewhere like Rathdowney which is nearby is a nicer course overall...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,989 ✭✭✭Trampas


    Played it once in a scratch up.

    On the tee at 8am.

    Arrived down at 7.30 and not a person around the place.

    Can't remember much about the place which says it all really.

    Wouldn't be paying full green fee.

    I like to play as many different courses as possible so I will usually go to a new course when I can. a couple short of a 100 now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,361 ✭✭✭f22


    Wouldn't walk out my back door to play it to be honest.

    If you're down that neck of the woods drive another few miles to Rathdowney, far better course.


  • Subscribers Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭PhilipMarlowe


    1st is a par 5, good driving hole...
    2nd also a par 5, stupid hole that you can go too long off the tee (unknown to you till you get there and find your ball...
    3rd is the beautiful very short par 3... ball can spin back off the green into the water and long leaves an impossible up and down.
    4th non-descript short par 4, 5-iron off the tee and wedge over water to the green with OOB long
    5th is a nice driving hole with a mid-iron to a green that slopes away so you probably need to land your 6 or 7 iron short and get a lucky bounce... (yuck)
    6th is non-descript par 3, mid iron from elevated tee to elevated green (lifting a tee box 5 feet and a green 8 feet off a flat piece of ground doesn't make it more interesting).
    7th is a short dogleg par 4, 4iron off the tee and turn right angles and hit a 50 yard pitch to a small green... zzzzz If you go too long off the tee you're in a hazard.
    8th is index 1, internal OOB on the left (yuck), need a long drive and then right angle turn with a mid iron down hill to a tiered green with OOB on the right.. it's a tough hole and not too bad.
    9th is a dogleg left par 4, can't drive too long straight or you'll get blocked out by trees, downhill approach with a wedge to a green that slopes away... ok hole
    10th is a straight par 4, the second shot is hit blind over a big hill to a green that slopes away... land on the green and it may hang on, land short on the hill and it's gone off the back... hate it.
    11 is a decent par 4, looks longer than it is, doglegs to the right and you can take a line further right that it seems off the tee... internal OOB left (grrr). Approach to the green is over a stream I think.
    12 is the uphill short par 4... drive-able under the right conditions... massive tiers on the green so in summer if you're above the hole you may not be able to keep a putt on the green?
    13 is a dogleg right par 4, couple of trees in the middle of the fairway so hit a good drive and may be blocked out with your second which is downhill to a green that slopes away (again)
    14th is a mid iron to an uphill par 3, decent hole.
    15th is a par 5, downhill and curves all the way to the left... some trees protect the green so long right off the tee opens up the hole... very nice par 5
    16 also a par 5, runs along side the 1st I think and is a similar hole, very difficult green I think
    17 is maybe a 3 iron downhill par 3... lovely stuff
    18 is a tough uphill par 4, drive and 5 iron? up the hill... OOB if you go long... very good par 4.

    I played it a few times because it was qualifying for Jimmy Bruen I think and Barton Cup was there also.. may have some of the details mixed up.
    I played Rathdowney 3 times, 1 practice round and 2 Junior Cup matches and have to say if I have the choice, I'll never play Abbeyleix again but I'd have no issue traveling to Rathdowney.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭Alzar


    f22 wrote: »
    Wouldn't walk out my back door to play it to be honest.

    If you're down that neck of the woods drive another few miles to Rathdowney, far better course.

    +1

    Rathdowney is a cracking course.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24 NuFlyer


    Played Abbeyleix when it was 9 hole, played the new layout a couple of times, and most recently , my society were there last weekend so I made excused not to go. It looks like they didn't have enough room for the expansion so shoe-horned 9 new holes into what they had. There's no flow, no feel to the course, you feel dizzy by the time you finish. So Abbeyleix is meh.

    Rathdowney next door is a decent track, or you could go to The Heath for an interesting challenge, no rough, just furze and sheep do-do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,476 ✭✭✭ShriekingSheet


    Never played it.

    What's on there Graeme?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Mister Sifter


    Never played it.

    What's on there Graeme?

    They have a good few open singles on down there... was thinking of getting down to one before the season is out. Don't think i'll rush down after hearing the comments... although like Trampas i'm all for playing as many courses as i can. Hopefully get to tick it off the list next year.


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