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  • #542
    Kevinmarkham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭Kevinmarkham


    A photo of the 2nd green at Arklow Links - taken yesterday evening

    svrlo1.jpg


  • #543
    scrubber72
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭scrubber72


    Galway Bay yesterday.


  • #544
    Kevinmarkham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭Kevinmarkham


    scrubber72 wrote: »
    Galway Bay yesterday.

    Scrubber, is the gorse not in flower yet?


  • #545
    scrubber72
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭scrubber72


    Not quite. With all the cold winds we have had it will be a couple more weeks. Still in good nick. Green staff working on bunkers due to heavy rains but only one spot on 9th wet on fairway.


  • #546
    dar_cool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭dar_cool


    Kevinmarkham wrote: »
    A photo of the 2nd green at Arklow Links - taken yesterday evening

    svrlo1.jpg

    Savage picture Kevin!!


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  • #547
    Kevinmarkham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭Kevinmarkham


    scrubber72 wrote: »
    Not quite. With all the cold winds we have had it will be a couple more weeks. Still in good nick. Green staff working on bunkers due to heavy rains but only one spot on 9th wet on fairway.

    Thanks - I'm down your way to take photos of the course next weekend (14/15/16 March), and was planning it around the gorse being out. Fingers crossed for a warm run of days.


  • #548
    Dbu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭Dbu


    Hi Kevin,
    may i ask what camera you use for these shots?


  • #549
    Ally McIntosh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭Ally McIntosh


    Kevinmarkham wrote: »
    A photo of the 2nd green at Arklow Links - taken yesterday evening

    svrlo1.jpg

    Kevin,

    Lovely photo. For my money, Arklow has one of the very best set of modern greens in the country. The second is my favourite of the lot.

    I rate the course highly.

    Ally


  • #550
    Kevinmarkham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭Kevinmarkham


    Dbu wrote: »
    Hi Kevin,
    may i ask what camera you use for these shots?

    Nikon D600. The lens is 24-70mm. Been saving up to buy them for a while!


  • #551
    Dbu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭Dbu


    Kevinmarkham wrote: »
    Nikon D600. The lens is 24-70mm. Been saving up to buy them for a while!

    Top class work Kevin


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  • #552
    Kevinmarkham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭Kevinmarkham


    Ally McIntosh wrote: »
    Kevin,

    Lovely photo. For my money, Arklow has one of the very best set of modern greens in the country. The second is my favourite of the lot.

    I rate the course highly.

    Ally

    Greens are glorious, alright. Fantastic to the eye and wonderful options for approaches. Do you know who did them, Ally.

    Have to confess, the 9th green is my favourite. A brute of a par three to get into - as this pic shows:

    28iqa9j.jpg


  • #553
    NapoleonInRags
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭NapoleonInRags


    Kevinmarkham wrote: »
    Greens are glorious, alright. Fantastic to the eye and wonderful options for approaches. Do you know who did them, Ally.

    Have to confess, the 9th green is my favourite. A brute of a par three to get into - as this pic shows:

    28iqa9j.jpg


    Great shots of Arklow Kevin - the light is spectacular.


  • #554
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Arklow is another hidden Gem that you hear very little about. I guess the quarry views take a bit away from it for some. Also very tight to fit a course in, in places.

    I love it.

    I like the way it is in a town too. Always a bit more life around the place.


  • #555
    Loire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭Loire


    Kevinmarkham wrote: »
    Nikon D600. The lens is 24-70mm. Been saving up to buy them for a while!

    Was half thinking of buying a new set of irons later in the year, but after seeing that shot I might just treat my trusty D40 to that lens :cool:

    Loire.


  • #556
    Kevinmarkham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭Kevinmarkham


    Loire wrote: »
    Was half thinking of buying a new set of irons later in the year, but after seeing that shot I might just treat my trusty D40 to that lens :cool:

    Loire.

    I can't remember which cost more: the camera or the lens. I think I closed my eyes when the guy at Conn's tried to show me the bill... which may explain why the irons I'm using were bought in 2005. Weigh that one up, Loire!


  • #557
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,263 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Some of the photographs here are simply First Class x 10.

    Well done Kevin and Co.

    You dont need to go to States or Portugal for first class Golf, its right here on our doorstep.

    EVENFLOW



  • #558
    Dossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭Dossy


    2nd in Lahinch Championship Course = Heaven

    d92d9521c2e56a00e1cec631499aa3eb_zps1657b832.jpg

    1st Lahinch Championship Course

    3ef573cb19ce94ae0628d3bc335fb616_zps1875a076.jpg


  • #559
    Loire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭Loire


    Great shots Dossy.

    Wouldn't you just love to smack a stinger down the first :cool:

    Loire.


  • #560
    Dossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭Dossy


    Loire wrote: »
    Great shots Dossy.

    Wouldn't you just love to smack a stinger down the first :cool:

    Loire.

    Ahh stop be great to hit it down the 1st and 2nd
    I did on the 1st, was a bit stiff and ended up hitting a stinger by mistake :D
    Lads with me "ah great idea keeping it out of the wind" oh ya sound.... lol

    It was my first time playing it and i could have walked around taking pictures of every hole, beautiful course


  • #561
    SnowDrifts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,733 ✭✭✭SnowDrifts


    Looking at this thread reminds me that I need to play more links golf. Some stunning shots.


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  • #562
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Maybe this is miles off the mark - but does the rough look very cut back on the left hand side there.
    As in you have a shot.


  • #563
    Dossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭Dossy


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    Maybe this is miles off the mark - but does the rough look very cut back on the left hand side there.
    As in you have a shot.

    No your dead right Fix, i asked the same due to hearing all these stories about how bad the rough is, i was told that in the winter they cut it back, probably only reason i got a good score, i pulled few drives and still found them


  • #564
    Benny Cake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭Benny Cake


    Dossy wrote: »
    No your dead right Fix, i asked the same due to hearing all these stories about how bad the rough is, i was told that in the winter they cut it back, probably only reason i got a good score, i pulled few drives and still found them

    Played there last summer and the rough was brutal. Two yards out of position = brown bread


  • #565
    Kevinmarkham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭Kevinmarkham


    Dossy wrote: »
    2nd in Lahinch Championship Course = Heaven

    d92d9521c2e56a00e1cec631499aa3eb_zps1657b832.jpg

    1st Lahinch Championship Course

    3ef573cb19ce94ae0628d3bc335fb616_zps1875a076.jpg
    Loire wrote: »
    Great shots Dossy.

    Wouldn't you just love to smack a stinger down the first :cool:

    Loire.

    1st hole is a cracker. Don't remember the rough though, and was there in July (2008). I think the attached shows a bit more of it.

    30jthzt.jpg


  • #566
    Dossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭Dossy


    Kevinmarkham wrote: »
    1st hole is a cracker. Don't remember the rough though, and was there in July (2008). I think the attached shows a bit more of it.

    30jthzt.jpg

    Ya it does alright, looks nasty enough there


  • #567
    Ally McIntosh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭Ally McIntosh


    Kevinmarkham wrote: »
    Greens are glorious, alright. Fantastic to the eye and wonderful options for approaches. Do you know who did them, Ally.

    Have to confess, the 9th green is my favourite. A brute of a par three to get into - as this pic shows:

    28iqa9j.jpg

    Sorry Kevin - missed this question.

    Eddie Connaughton was the designer and it was DAR who constructed and shaped them.

    Ally


  • #568
    Cecco70
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭Cecco70


    First tee in Castleknock this morning.


  • #569
    Loire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭Loire


    Cecco70 wrote: »
    First tee in Castleknock this morning.

    Nice shot. Pity the first timer if he hits one down the left ;)


  • #570
    Cecco70
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭Cecco70


    Loire wrote: »
    Nice shot. Pity the first timer if he hits one down the left ;)

    Thanks Loire, thankfully the fog lifted quickly after that and it turned out to be a beautiful morning.


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  • #571
    Kevinmarkham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭Kevinmarkham


    The 11th at Galway Bay GC, from this evening.

    54i1sg.jpg


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