- Ryder Cup review - part two
Apr
1
Some of the world’s most beautiful courses are waiting to be discovered with a stunning array of lakes and rivers, mountains and drumlins, cliff tops forests and seascapes so grab your club and go!
Imagine 30% of the world’s links courses are in Ireland, and all of them are accessible to the visiting golfer. And it doesn’t cost the earth, either with green fees on parkland courses coming in at around $40-47, it’s a golfer’s paradise!
Although not the “home” of golf, many would agree that its soul lies here in Ireland, perhaps in the cemetery next to the first tee at Ballybunion! The other classic links of southwest Ireland, including Lahinch, Waterville, Tralee, Old Head, and Doonbeg, also need no introduction, but many Ireland golf aficionados will actually head north from Shannon, seemingly to the end of the earth, to a course anointed by Sports Illustrated as the “best in the world!,” mysterious Carne Golf Links!
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