Ireland's Top 50 Parklands... Again

Kevinmarkham

Golfing Weekly Mag ran this last year... and it's up and running again. If you want to vote for your 50 top parklands, then follow the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/top50parkland

There's €10,000 in prizes, including paying your annual sub!

If you just want to gripe about rankings being rubbish, this is your opportunity (again).

I'm no fan, but at least this gives you the opportunity to have your say.

So, basically, if you don't vote, don't gripe.

Last year the K Club was ranked number one.

cack_handed

i'm not voting so is it ok if i have an anticipatory gripe about the rankings here?

Seriously, i would vote but i don't think i know more then 30 parkland courses here so how could i have any authority? Headfort (new) has always been my favourite but then I haven't played Mount Juliet or Adare or Fota Island so how on earth can i be sure?

Rikand

its an opinion cack.

You give your opinion and you can't say fairer than that. I'll be giving mine and I havent played every single golf course in Ireland either

Quick question - Which of the Adare's was the one that held the Irish Open ?

Kevinmarkham

Rikand wrote: »

its an opinion cack.

You give your opinion and you can't say fairer than that. I'll be giving mine and I havent played every single golf course in Ireland either

Quick question - Which of the Adare's was the one that held the Irish Open ?

That's Adare Manor Hotel & Golf

Kevinmarkham

cack_handed wrote: »

Seriously, i would vote but i don't think i know more then 30 parkland courses

As said, Cack, don't let that stop you. Simply rank the ones you know. The survey's algorithm will take care of the rest.

cack_handed

Ah right, so you dont have to go all the way down to 50? I just thought it would be a bit disingenuous to be voting for courses you'd never actually played?

Out of interest i surveyed the list of courses and have actually played 40 with 3 possibles (likely nightmare rounds), but I see no mention of poor old Sillogue Park which would get a vote from me out of sheer pity!

*memo to self: please read small print before posting and making a muppet of yourself!!

Rikand

All 36 of the parkland courses I have played ranked and sent

geeksauce

top 10 done

thewobbler

I'm not sure why they would want any more than 10 votes per person.

Even if you've played all 300-odd Irish parklands, you've got to be able to differentiate between the memorable and the rest.

Personally I was a bit surprised at last year's results. I'd have thought that Dublin's population bias would have meant Dublin/Meath/Kildare/Wicklow course cleaning up. But it seems as though either the dirty Dubs do a bit of travelling to play golf, or GW does a little bit of curation on votes. Hopefully the former.

The people's vote does make for an interesting list - but it shows we are more than a tad susceptible to hype. Galgorm shouldn't be on that list and O'Meara probably isn't been top 40.

Norfolk Enchants_

No Beaufort GC, joke of survey without every option available.

A New earth

Rikand wrote: »

its an opinion cack.

You give your opinion and you can't say fairer than that. I'll be giving mine and I havent played every single golf course in Ireland either

Quick question - Which of the Adare's was the one that held the Irish Open ?

Irish Open played at Adare Golf Club, Adare Manor is the original smaller course.

Rikand

A New earth wrote: »

Irish Open played at Adare Golf Club, Adare Manor is the original smaller course.

Well ****e - voted the wrong coirse as my number 1

htp

Norfolk Enchants_ wrote: »

No Beaufort GC, joke of survey without every option available.

I can see Beaufort on the list

mike12

You should only vote for the courses you have played, i'm sure it says than in the instructions.

slave1

Rikand wrote: »

its an opinion cack.

You give your opinion and you can't say fairer than that. I'll be giving mine and I havent played every single golf course in Ireland either

Quick question - Which of the Adare's was the one that held the Irish Open ?

Ha, I bet you there's been lads that have booked on line or over the phone to get Adare at a great price only to turn up at the wrong place.
They are literally beside another, I think it's the 14th green/15th tee box in the good place that's next to the old place by a matter of yards with just some grass separating them...

PARlance

slave1 wrote: »

Ha, I bet you there's been lads that have booked on line or over the phone to get Adare at a great price only to turn up at the wrong place.
They are literally beside another, I think it's the 14th green/15th tee box in the good place that's next to the old place by a matter of yards with just some grass separating them...

Same thing happens quite a bit between Killeen GC (that's always on teetimes) and Killeen Castle. The only problem is that they're about 40mins apart.

Dr_Colossus

slave1 wrote: »

Ha, I bet you there's been lads that have booked on line or over the phone to get Adare at a great price only to turn up at the wrong place.
They are literally beside another, I think it's the 14th green/15th tee box in the good place that's next to the old place by a matter of yards with just some grass separating them...

Never played the big resort course but was very impressed with Adare Manor when I played it a couple of months ago. Far exceeded my expectation and the setting is idyllic among the abbey, graveyard and old church. Quirky short tight course but with a good mix of longer holes also.
The 3rd tee box is within yards of the resort course but there's a stream between the two courses so not really an option to traverse from one course to the other.

A.Partridge

Top 50 done!

Anatom

Done. Although I got bored after about 20 or so...

stockdam

thewobbler wrote: »

Galgorm shouldn't be on that list.

Why not?

thewobbler

stockdam wrote: »

Why not?

Played it a couple of times now Stockdam and was underwhelmed each time.

Starts off well with nice doglegs and good water, but from the 11th onwards i find it monotonous.

Great facilities, very well maintained, but an average golf course.

Personally I'd have a large number of parklands in Ulster ahead of it (Malone, Royal Belfast, Lisburn, Erne, Belvoir, Dunmurry, Knock, Tandragee, Kilkeel, Massereene, Warrenpoint, Armagh), so that's why I don't see it in Ireland's 50.