Irish Open 2021 [No Covid posts]

Ivefoundgod wrote: »

I'm volunteering at this on hole 7 for the few days. Anyone done it in the past? How bored am I likely to be? Figured I might as well do it when its so close to home and doubt I'll do it again so standing around for several hours while I'm still in my 30s should be a bit more manageable than if I was older.

I was marshalling a few years ago. We had the 18th hole at the K Club so was pretty exciting

I suppose we had a good bit to do as we had to monitor when it was ok for players to tee off as they couldn't see the landing zone off the Par 5.

Crowd wise though it was pretty quiet most of the day outside of the Irish groups coming through, a swell of people comes through around those groups but then eases off afterwards. A good advantage if you know the course and layout pretty well as I spent most of the week just helping people out with directions to different holes, car parks, toilets, food etc

Grab a tee sheet too so you know who's coming through and when. Helps predict when the crowds will roll in and just generally know who's playing if asked.

Overall with the limited crowd I'd imagine it should be pretty straight forward. Enjoy

one man clappin wrote: »

Played there last monday in open singles.
The rough was very very hard and it seems that they are letting it grow even more.

I played Monday as well, the rough was insane especially on the back 9. It was hard enough to dig a ball out of it when it was dry but when that gets wet it will be seriously tough to get out, even for the pros. With another 3 weeks growth it will be like US open rough by the first day of the open. That being said, they need to make the course more of a challenge. Even off the championship tees, most of the par 4s would nearly be reachable with just two irons for the longer hitting pros. Nearly all the par 5s are reachable in two so they need to toughen it up a bit. Even with the rough being the way it is I can still see a very low score winning the Irish Open.

What a treat the course is though, the greens were immaculate and there wasn’t a mark on any of the fairways (not that I hit that many). It’s a great course and will be a fabulous setting for the Irish Open.

Tickets booked

I opened the email straight away and all bar juniors and 18-21 tickets were sold out. There was 2 days where adult tickets looked like they were available but when I clicked the sold out sign came up!

Would there be any hassle giving my ticket to a friend, if the tickets have my name on them? Just wondering how strict it might be, if I don't end up going myself.

My sister was trying to buy a ticket for myself and my 12 year old. She got a bit confused and purchased 2 adult tickets instead using my name & that of a friend. Just wondering how I get my son in, if I change the name on the adult ticket to him though obviously he is not an adult or are U13 allowed in for free with an adult in which case is there a way to add him to my ticket.

I have asked my sister to send on whatever confirmation email she would have received this morning.

Where do they go on general release? Had signed up for the pre release but email went in the spam folder…

JoeCole26 wrote: »

I logged in at 2pm and in the panic bought 2 concession tickets for the Sunday rather than Adult tickets. Typical. If anyone looking for them will sell them for face value.

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