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Hollystown closing

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  • #62
    slingerz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,248 ✭✭✭slingerz


    blue note wrote: »
    Ah you haven't needed to be rich to play golf in Ireland for a long time. I think of the older members in my club growing up, very normal people - teachers, guards, postmen, barmen. People with those jobs would struggle to play golf in other countries.

    And there aren't many entry level courses around. But now hollystown is gone, I hear deerpark is sold, so I suspect it won't remain accessible to the masses. As the golfing population keeps getting older clubs will feel the pinch more and more, it's not only the recession that was a problem. It'll these types of courses that will be most likely to go.

    i think that is more relevant to Dublin than a lot of other areas. i know in Cork there are plenty of cheap alternatives to get into golf than the more inaccessible courses


  • #63
    [Deleted User]
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    It's certainly a shame when any course closes but golf remains an accessible sport in Dublin.

    Accessible is being able to go on golfnow or teetimes and find a course in the area to play at the weekend for 30 euro. Still easily done. I see st margarets tee times available for 20 euro this Saturday, and if you want to spend a little more you can play Powerscourt or Luttrelstown and the like.

    It is amazingly easy to play golf in and around Dublin. It's very hard to play golf well though, that's another story


  • #64
    downthemiddle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    I hear another course has gone by the wayside with Killerig closing.


  • #65
    Ollieboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,070 ✭✭✭Ollieboy


    downthemiddle wrote: »
    I hear another course has gone by the wayside with Killerig closing.

    Some clubhouse they had, but 100 members at 650! How did they even manage to last so long?


  • #66
    charlieIRL
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,190 Mod ✭✭✭✭charlieIRL


    downthemiddle wrote: »
    I hear another course has gone by the wayside with Killerig closing.

    Any concrete proof ? we dont want any riumours starting here which could be damaging to a club.


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  • #67
    L1011
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    charlieIRL wrote: »
    Any concrete proof ? we dont want any riumours starting here which could be damaging to a club.

    Was in the media last year

    carlow-nationalist.ie/2019/12/20/killerig-golf-club-to-close-its-doors/


  • #68
    purdy1984
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭purdy1984


    Killerig closed its doors in December all the club's around have got a big influx. Mount Wolseley got 45 or 50...time sheet under pressure even now this time of year it's hard for existing members to get on it


  • #69
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,007 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    purdy1984 wrote: »
    Killerig closed its doors in December all the club's around have got a big influx. Mount Wolseley got 45 or 50...time sheet under pressure even now this time of year it's hard for existing members to get on it

    Which is the point I made in the other thread, you have to be very careful about opening your doors when you have a limited resource.


  • #70
    blue note
    Registered Users Posts: 4,500 ✭✭✭blue note


    GreeBo wrote: »
    Which is the point I made in the other thread, you have to be very careful about opening your doors when you have a limited resource.

    I'd say everyone would love a resurrection of that discussion in another thread :P


  • #71
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,007 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    blue note wrote: »
    I'd say everyone would love a resurrection of that discussion in another thread :P

    "If you open it, I will come" ;)


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  • #72
    downthemiddle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    Looks like two courses in Kerry have closed their doors permanently. Also reports of a Dublin club returning annual subscriptions.


  • #73
    prawnsambo
    Registered Users Posts: 12,983 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    downthemiddle wrote: »
    Looks like two courses in Kerry have closed their doors permanently. Also reports of a Dublin club returning annual subscriptions.
    Killorglin being one of them.
    There is no indication of the closure on the club’s website and the Golfing Union of Ireland has not received official word but it is understood that the members-run club was wound up last weekend.


  • #74
    tvercetti
    Registered Users Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭tvercetti


    prawnsambo wrote: »
    Killorglin being one of them.

    Castleisland being the other!

    https://www.radiokerry.ie/kerry-golf-club-danger-closed/


  • #75
    moycullen14
    Registered Users Posts: 869 ✭✭✭moycullen14


    tvercetti wrote: »
    Castleisland being the other!

    https://www.radiokerry.ie/kerry-golf-club-danger-closed/

    That's a shame, Played it a few years ago - 15 euro for a wednesday open. Lovely course, great views, friendly people.

    Interesting that two courses in Kerry gone or going. Are they more dependent that others on green fees?


  • #76
    tvercetti
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    moycullen14 wrote: »
    That's a shame, Played it a few years ago - 15 euro for a wednesday open. Lovely course, great views, friendly people.

    Interesting that two courses in Kerry gone or going. Are they more dependent that others on green fees?

    The way Kerry is going, you'd wonder can an 18 hole course survive charging less that €50 for a summer round. I think Beauforts probably the only course under €50 now, Kenmare is a little over judging by there site.

    A lot of the 9 holes died off in the last 20 years too; Ardfert, Kerries, Listowel, Ballybeggan, Dunloe.

    Castleisland had an introductory offer of €250 for a years membership rising to €450 and then the full price of €650.


  • #77
    twounderpar
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭twounderpar


    Perhaps there was an over supply of courses around Killorglin. Dooks, Beaufort and 3 courses in Killarney are all within 20 minutes drive from Killorglin Golf Club. The Hon. Sec did say in his interview in The Irish Examiner that dwindling numbers was one of the reasons for the closure.


  • #78
    PhilOssophy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭PhilOssophy


    Ireland has any amount of really good golf courses where you can get around for 30-40 quid a round. Why go to Kerry and fork out big money, spend a lot on accommodation, etc, when there are so many equally good options?


  • #79
    Remind me
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭Remind me


    downthemiddle wrote: »
    Looks like two courses in Kerry have closed their doors permanently. Also reports of a Dublin club returning annual subscriptions.

    Annual subscriptions will become an interesting topic if this doesn't turn a corner sooner rather than later


  • #80
    Golfhead65
    Registered Users Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Golfhead65


    Members of City West received a letter to say that course is closing until further notice as complex is to be taken over by the HSE and fees have been reimbursed


  • #81
    spacecoyote
    Registered Users Posts: 8,431 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    Golfhead65 wrote: »
    Members of City West received a letter to say that course is closing until further notice as complex is to be taken over by the HSE and fees have been reimbursed

    Its already taken over. There is a guard-hut at the first roundabout on the way in & the main hotel is now occupied by the HSE. Railings are up everywhere. The Lemongrass restaurant is open for a limited collection service, but other than that the whole site is closed down


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  • #82
    gypsy79
    Registered Users Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭gypsy79


    spacecoyote wrote: »
    Its already taken over. There is a guard-hut at the first roundabout on the way in & the main hotel is now occupied by the HSE. Railings are up everywhere. The Lemongrass restaurant is open for a limited collection service, but other than that the whole site is closed down

    Suspect it will stay as a form of old folks home, if enough people survive following this saga

    The drainage on the course was always a problem


  • #83
    downthemiddle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    I hear another course in Dublin is closing their gates tomorrow. Always a shame to see members lose their home.


  • #84
    Lad GAGA
    Registered Users Posts: 665 ✭✭✭Lad GAGA


    downthemiddle wrote: »
    I hear another course in Dublin is closing their gates tomorrow. Always a shame to see members lose their home.

    Always sad to see that. Which one?


  • #85
    Rippeditup
    Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭Rippeditup


    downthemiddle wrote: »
    I hear another course in Dublin is closing their gates tomorrow. Always a shame to see members lose their home.

    Awful to see this, it’s weird as some clubs are busier than ever


  • #86
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,556 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    Which club? Is it just the planned wind up of Dublin mountain with the sale?


  • #87
    fred funk }{
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    Lads, probably best not to name it here until its been released by the club itself.


  • #88
    gypsy79
    Registered Users Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭gypsy79


    pm?


  • #89
    Ollieboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,070 ✭✭✭Ollieboy


    downthemiddle wrote: »
    I hear another course in Dublin is closing their gates tomorrow. Always a shame to see members lose their home.

    So who was it and did they close?


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