Corballis Links - opens

Bobby_Kennedy

Hi all,

Wondering if any of you have played Corballis Links recently and how you rate it. Looking at the GUI site they have an open singles all through the winter on Fridays. Had a look at the card and it looks fairly short.

Cheers

andy1981

great course
Corballis is fairly short. What Handicap are you?
It can be a challenge on a windy day as it is right on the beach. There are some very tricky short holes and some very difficult long ones as well,the 3rd, the index 2 is in my opinion the hardest hole on the course. A big hitter will be lucky to be on in two.
Anyway worth a look.. Good luck

Bobby_Kennedy

Cheers for the reply.

I play off 11.

Mister Sifter

Isn't CSS about 39 points around there?

ridonkulous

Its been years since I was out there but apart from the few holes that are across "the road" its a superb course taking everything into account.

I think CSS is pretty high but any day I have played there was a howling wind which made the day all the more fun. No point in playing Corballis without the wind.

Tigerswoody

It's a very underrated course in my opinion, people turn their noses up at it as it's a public course .
There are some great holes (esp the new ones), a few average ones, and one or two poor ones as well. But how many links courses are that accessible to Joe Public? Give it a go, what's the worst that can happen??

mike12

ridonkulous wrote: »

Its been years since I was out there but apart from the few holes that are across "the road" its a superb course taking everything into account.

I think CSS is pretty high but any day I have played there was a howling wind which made the day all the more fun. No point in playing Corballis without the wind.

Hi,
The 3 holes across the road no longer exist they redesigned some of the holes on this side of the road as well all for the better a decent test and i'd say no winter rules or boggy fairways will be worth a look over the winter.
Mike

Nicklaus

Corballis is a good course to play, especially in the Winter months.

weatherguy

I played Corballis in the 80s before getting into Royal Dublin. I always enjoyed it. Great test of golf.
Bernhard Langer always practiced there before the Irish and the Open championships.
A mate of mine who is a pro on the Tour always advised me to practice in Corballis rather than an inland course due to the prevailing wind conditions at the Donabate course.
You learn to play different shots into the wind; approach shots to the greens etc.