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Tips/comments on Laytown Bettystown

  • 24-06-2011 12:42pm
    #1
    dwolf20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭


    Playing here tomorrow in a team event. Anyone played it recently or got any tips to share?
    Thanks!


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  • #2
    ThunderCat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭ThunderCat


    Its more or less a typical out and back links. The front 9 is played over the hillier dunes but is generally downwind whereas the inward 9 are over flatter land but the holes are tighter and are generally into the wind. So depending on the conditions that day, you'd want to be getting your scoring done on the earlier holes if possible. That said, if the wind behaves, the back 9 is there for the taking once you are not too wild off the tee. Not a very long course and it feels a bit cramped in places but its an honest course and there are very very few blind/partially blind shots. As far as I remember there are no burns or streams on it either. If memory serves me right the greens arnt very undulating and the bunkers are fairly shallow for a links course. Best of luck and enjoy.


  • #3
    dwolf20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭dwolf20


    Thanks for that! Website only shows the strokesaver - so hard to get an impression with no decent photos etc. Looks like it is to be dry tomorrow but with a fairly stiff SW wind its seems like the front nine will the easier as you say!


  • #4
    ThunderCat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭ThunderCat


    dwolf20 wrote: »
    Thanks for that! Website only shows the strokesaver - so hard to get an impression with no decent photos etc. Looks like it is to be dry tomorrow but with a fairly stiff SW wind its seems like the front nine will the easier as you say!

    Yea thats usually the way the wind is there. It makes pretty much every hole on the front nine easily reachable although the 1st and 6th I think it is dont play downwind. 1st will be into the wind and 6th will be with the wind blowing from the left. With the wind behind you on a links course you will be landing the approach shots short of the greens and letting them run on but that can be tricky given the terrain near some of the greens. If the prevailing wind blows, the back nine approaches will be more like target golf.
    Kevin Markham on here probably has photos of the course. Lads would anyone have the link to Kevins flickr photos? cant access them on this computer.


  • #5
    dwolf20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭dwolf20


    Found them! Thanks!!


  • #6
    Topper Harley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Topper Harley


    Had a very mixed round on it yesterday (Friday). A bit of rain while I was on the front nine but nothing troublesome, however, the wind and rain really picked up on the back nine with the wind coming straight at us. If conditions today are anything like yesterday, 11 to 18 (excluding 15) will play considerably longer. I think anyone out before 12:00 would have missed the crap weather though.

    Under normal circumstances the greens are very fast but with the rain yesterday, they slowed quite a bit and for the most part they aren't very undulating (the 7th being an exception).

    And on the par 5 4th, you probably won't be able to see the green for your approach, so beware, the entire green slopes from right to left.

    Best of luck and I'm hoping the sun will come out for you.


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