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  • 21-03-2019 4:08pm
    #1
    Dublin Spur
    Registered Users Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭


    Playing there soon and I've heard it's great

    Anyone on here played it ?


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  • #2
    Miley Byrne
    Registered Users Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭Miley Byrne


    Dublin Spur wrote: »
    Playing there soon and I've heard it's great

    Anyone on here played it ?

    It's OK only, played it once last summer and it is certainly not as good as the hype suggests. Don't get me wrong there are some very good holes but overall it's average enough. Beautiful setting though to be fair.

    As a freebie it's fine but give me the place across town any day of the week


  • #3
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,788 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Had a munch in the restaurant there a couple of weeks ago, it is an awesome set up.

    Looks like the interior designer was told to spend as much money as possible.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #4
    YoTaro
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭YoTaro


    What prices are the green fees?


  • #5
    slave1
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 18,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭slave1


    Looks to me like it's set up to take spillage from Waterville and maybe Tralee/Ballybunion and of course the US tourist, no other reason to have such an expensive place so isolated

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  • #6
    bmay529
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭bmay529


    I understood it was setup by its new wealthy owners as a base primarily to entertain their wealthy international business clients and was not open for or did not encourage green fees. I passed it last year during summer and would have liked to call in to have a look but the automatic gate was closed and they were not keen on visitors.


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  • #7
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,788 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    There's a man in charge of security at the entrance now.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #8
    Miley Byrne
    Registered Users Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭Miley Byrne


    YoTaro wrote: »
    What prices are the green fees?

    Not sure exactly but you are talking close to €300 in memory serves me correctly. I mean if you look at Adare charging close to €400 and you take that as the benchmark as the best parkland in the country, the two courses wouldn't be that close in terms of quality.


  • #9
    billy3sheets
    Registered Users Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭billy3sheets


    https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/golf/hogs-head-golf-course-a-different-model-to-anything-else-in-this-country-465512.html

    Article by Kevin Markham in the Cork Examiner from January 2018.


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