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Wicklow Golf Club

  • 26-10-2009 12:04pm
    #1
    lemon head
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    Is Wicklow G.C a link course or parkland???. Trying to book a round in a link course in the wicklow area


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  • #2
    rafared
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭rafared


    My dad is a member there years. It was origionally a 9 hole course but they added an extra 9 maybe 16 years ago or thereabouts.
    I play it with the old man 3 or 4 times a year and always enjoy it. I have brought some of my regular playing partners down to play it and they all agree its a super course.
    Its neither a parkland nor a Links yet at times has elements of both. I'd describe it as a headland course as it skirts the rocky coastline and has beautiful views of the surrounding landscapes. Its not overly long, with several driveable par 4's but it is very tight with cliffs and the sea lining one side of the fairway. The greens are tough, fast, and contoured. ....its essential to be below the pin on some or you may putt off the green.
    The clubhouse is magnificant with a large glazed bar/dining room overlooking the course. I'd also add that the food in the clubhouse is good quality and very reasonably priced.
    Go and play it, you will enjoy it.
    Ps -watch for the par 3 17th....its a beauty.


  • #3
    Brockagh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Brockagh


    lemon head wrote: »
    Is Wicklow G.C a link course or parkland???. Trying to book a round in a link course in the wicklow area

    If you want links golf in the Wicklow area, you've got Arklow and the European Club. There's more in Dublin and Wexford.


  • #4
    ciano12
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    lemon head wrote: »
    Is Wicklow G.C a link course or parkland???. Trying to book a round in a link course in the wicklow area

    dunno


  • #5
    Brockagh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Brockagh


    It's most certainly not a links course. It's a seaside course.


  • #6
    jimjo
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    Maybe its not an out and out links but it does have elements of a links course I would have thought. Not a long course but tricky, very tricky depending on what tee’s you play off and how windy it is, but well worth a go.

    The 4th (I think), make sure to tee from the nose, a tee box right on the edge of a cliff pretty much in the sea! The front 9 isn’t too bad if I recall correctly. The back 9 caught me out with difficult holes, found the par 3’s tricky. Yeah the 17th is just a green basically and if your not on it your out of the hole.

    Blainroe golf club is just up the road.A great parkland course by the sea and in my opinion a better bet than Wicklow. One hole the 14th (again, I think) you drive right over the sea, a risk reward hole the more you take on the shorter your second shot but if you get it wrong reload! Played with a few Blainroe members and they thought Wicklow was more a ‘crazy golf’ course! Oh well you cant please them all.

    So play both and come back to us!


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