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Top 100 Irish Golf Courses 2018 - Golf Digest Ireland vs. Irish Golfer

  • 07-03-2018 10:41pm
    #1
    Kevinmarkham
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    Golf Digest Ireland released their Top 100 courses today. For me, the most interesting thing is how this ranking compares to the Irish Golfer ranking (Nov 2017) and where the sizeable variations appear.

    Here's a link to my blog where I have compared the two lists side-by-side.


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  • #2
    Hoboo
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    Seapoint a massive 37 place difference! Cant see how its considered top 50 by Golf Digest. Apart from the last 4 holes which are superb links holes, the rest are parkland, maybe a mix of the two at best here and there. Played two weeks ago and it was pretty grim, winter weather shows it up, which shouldn't be the case in a true links.


  • #3
    Kevinmarkham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭Kevinmarkham


    Hoboo wrote: »
    Seapoint a massive 37 place difference! Cant see how its considered top 50 by Golf Digest. Apart from the last 4 holes which are superb links holes, the rest are parkland, maybe a mix of the two at best here and there. Played two weeks ago and it was pretty grim, winter weather shows it up, which shouldn't be the case in a true links.

    Interesting to hear that.
    The course has an interesting evolution re your links/parkland comment. The turf base is all links but the holes nearest the entrance and farthest from the sea were used as agricultural land before the golf course arrived (1993) and so the soil on top is denser and plays less like a links than elsewhere.


  • #4
    slave1
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    Narin at 27 and it on the verge of closure....crime to let that go.
    Aren't we spoiled with courses


  • #5
    Mushy
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    slave1 wrote: »
    Narin at 27 and it on the verge of closure....crime to let that go.
    Aren't we spoiled with courses

    Couldn't agree more.

    Then I saw this from today: https://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/news/home/301516/deal-allows-play-to-resume-at-donegal-golf-course.html

    Delighted, even if it's not necessarily permanent.


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