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Ok - I'm going to try review this course, without the fact that I played awful come into it. I'll try
First of all, it is like playing in somebody's back garden. It is an extremely peaceful place. You feel away from it all. The few views, you get of the sea, are stunning. It is remarkable the effort they go to, to make you welcome. Talking to Pat Ruddy himself - I was asking him about the blue tees after looking at the course length. He told me, he considered the course like a grand piano - you never play all the keys at once.
The course is defined by its bunkers - even on the first you are looking at clearing bunkers , but on many instances around the course , a run out to a further bunker is a distinct possibility. I can understand how many an hour over a pint - has been spent, talking about the bunkers at The European.
Started well - but hit a bunker on 3 after playing sensible enough golf all the way - it is a stunning hole. 4 shots from a bunker - can't ever remember doing that before. The problem is, the ball just fell in and rested against wood. The bunkers are hard enough - should it be effectively a penalty on top of a hazard ? I'm sure that debate has been had many a time, in many an accent.
So by the fourth , if not before, you learn a hard lesson - , bunkers are not for going into - particularly today.
At times, like as you turn at 5 , you feel impossibly too far from the sea, for the course to be a links at all. Some of the holes remind me of the inner holes in Old Head - that may almost feel sacrilegious to say that - but you have to say what you see.
On many holes - the 7th for example - from the forward tees , you are not really getting the experience of the hole. I just played a 5 and a 7 to it. That is not a justice to the hole - it is a far superior hole from further back.
At times the course has it's quirkiness - like the two alternate holes. But - I've seen this at other great Irish courses - it means you will almost always have 18 holes to play in winter. You do forget - even if sanded - cored or tinned - it is a rare Irish pleasure, to play full golf all year round.
Stepping up to the 2nd shot on the 8th - like the 3rd , the course deceives again and suddenly you could be on any of the great links , with the big dunes on the west coast. That sums up the course - you just don't know what quirk or unexpected turn is next.
A playing partner "Scub" - found a bunker on the LHS of 13 - he said if the German's had that in World War 2 , they would have won.
12 - 13 and 14 are stunning holes and up there with any of the great coastal holes, I have played in Irish golf.
So an interesting place, a place I need to play again , in the summer the rough must be a nightmare - but that is a hazard too. A course that needs you to go back , is always in another category. A course , not easy to put your finger on first time round - I must of only seen a 1/4 of the place.
Hit 2 sleepers on 18 and ended up with another double - summed up my golfing day.
So off to have a sleeper-less night.
Still another day to remember on a great Links - good company, great views, the coast to ourselves for one day.0 -
FixdePitchmark wrote: »Ok - I'm going to try review this course, without the fact that I played awful come into it. I'll try
First of all, it is like playing in somebody's back garden. It is an extremely peaceful place. You feel away from it all. The few views, you get of the sea, are stunning. It is remarkable the effort they go to, to make you welcome. Talking to Pat Ruddy himself - I was asking him about the blue tees after looking at the course length. He told me, he considered the course like a grand piano - you never play all the keys at once.
The course is defined by its bunkers - even on the first you are looking at clearing bunkers , but on many instances around the course , a run out to a further bunker is a distinct possibility. I can understand how many an hour over a pint - has been spent, talking about the bunkers at The European.
Started well - but hit a bunker on 3 after playing sensible enough golf all the way - it is a stunning hole. 4 shots from a bunker - can't ever remember doing that before. The problem is, the ball just fell in and rested against wood. The bunkers are hard enough - should it be effectively a penalty on top of a hazard ? I'm sure that debate has been had many a time, in many an accent.
So by the fourth , if not before, you learn a hard lesson - , bunkers are not for going into - particularly today.
At times, like as you turn at 5 , you feel impossibly too far from the sea, for the course to be a links at all. Some of the holes remind me of the inner holes in Old Head - that may almost feel sacrilegious to say that - but you have to say what you see.
On many holes - the 7th for example - from the forward tees , you are not really getting the experience of the hole. I just played a 5 and a 7 to it. That is not a justice to the hole - it is a far superior hole from further back.
At times the course has it's quirkiness - like the two alternate holes. But - I've seen this at other great Irish courses - it means you will almost always have 18 holes to play in winter. You do forget - even if sanded - cored or tinned - it is a rare Irish pleasure, to play full golf all year round.
Stepping up to the 2nd shot on the 8th - like the 3rd , the course deceives again and suddenly you could be on any of the great links , with the big dunes on the west coast. That sums up the course - you just don't know what quirk or unexpected turn is next.
A playing partner "Scub" - found a bunker on the LHS of 13 - he said if the German's had that in World War 2 , they would have won.
12 - 13 and 14 are stunning holes and up there with any of the great coastal holes, I have played in Irish golf.
So an interesting place, a place I need to play again , in the summer the rough must be a nightmare - but that is a hazard too. A course that needs you to go back , is always in another category. A course , not easy to put your finger on first time round - I must of only seen a 1/4 of the place.
Hit 2 sleepers on 18 and ended up with another double - summed up my golfing day.
So off to have a sleeper-less night.
Still another day to remember on a great Links - good company, great views, the coast to ourselves for one day.
^its good but it's no Kevin Markham 😜
Any photos btw?0 -
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Who's that in the visor, seems like the type of guy that could make it in the US never mind the European
I've an extremely big head, hats are a no no for me. That's my excuse.
First time in the European today, first time in a visor.... D'ya know what, I enjoyed both 0 -
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