Clontarf GC

lettuce97

Hi all,

Thinking of playing Clontarf at some stage, only around the corner from me and they're doing a deal of €30 green fee before 9.30. Has anyone any views on it - is it a decent enough course?

Cheers.

copacetic

yep, decent enough course, worth playing for €30

sweetswing

lettuce97 wrote: »

Hi all,

Thinking of playing Clontarf at some stage, only around the corner from me and they're doing a deal of €30 green fee before 9.30. Has anyone any views on it - is it a decent enough course?

Cheers.

i only live 300 yards from the club house, and i only ever played it twice, and that was two times to many , its flat , its up and down and its uninteresting, its also very dangerous , i wouldnt play it for free , plenty of other courses about , and you wont be restricted to time for 30 bills
thats just my opinion .

f22

Short, good greens, pretty average!

sweetswing

when i played the greens were superb, they were a silver lining to an other wise dull and dreary day

lotie

It's a great throwback to days when golf course didn't have to be 7000yds and have 15 bunkers on every hole!

It's always in good condition so well worth it for €30.

Pity they had to change the 12th a number of years ago. It used to be one of the best holes in the county (yes, country!). It's still a good hole but not the same.

Mister Sifter

Short, fairly easy, poorly laid out, good condition, full of arseholes.

ShriekingSheet

Much to like and almost as much to dislike about it.

It's tiny in length, very short par 4s, one short par 5. Some crap holes such as 12, which is the pure comedy, 11 which is nothing more than a long p&p hole. Plenty of good solid tree lined par 4s though.

You need real cop-on to score around it. That's not to say you need to poke it round with an 4 iron off every tee. I bashed the driver round the place last year and scored nicely. But you need to be straight, and be comfortable pitching and punching wedge shots from various distances with proper bite on ball, as the greens are small and rock solid in summer, some with front bunkers. Full-shot merchants who rely on gap wedges and every shot being a stock one will either need to be very scientific with their tee shots, and hit lots of irons of par 4 tees, or actually learn to play golf like an Irish person, rather than a Florida resident.

Lay-out isn't the most thought-out, but it makes for interesting tee shots. You can't really hit a draw on the first three for example. Then you need a good solid draw flight on some later holes.

It's one of those clubs that has more than it's fair share of pompous idiot members. That said, the support and buzz around the Lord Mayor's every year is a credit to the place, and most of the members I came accross were sound, and enthusiastic about the week. Outside of that though, expect to be looked up and down to ensure your adhering to dress code... or maybe that old dude was just coming on to me

jimjo

I'm down to play a team event here on Saturday however one of the playing partners down to play is a right ass! Although I should be able to grin and bear the 18 holes though

Anyone play here recently? I take it with this decent spell the course must be holding up well. From what I can gather its tight so leave the driver in the bag for the most part. It’s only a team event so more of a day out to be honest than a real serious round. I’m not expecting much from the course so hope to be surprised.

Ginny007

You got to be straight off the tee.

No sence in lashing at it.