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Dublin Series 3, History of early Golf Clubs

March 31, 2020 / Featured destinations

Dublin Series 3, History of early Golf Clubs Golf history in Dublin and County Dublin Introduction: The first organised golf played in Ireland was on heathland at Curragh about 30 miles West of Dublin. Royal Curragh claims to be the ...

Dublin Series 2, Golf Courses and Sightseeing

March 22, 2020 / Golf History

Golf in Dublin and County Dublin International golfers like to play links golf in Ireland as it has a wide choice of quality links golf. The five leading Dublin area links are noted here: Portmarnock Championship is typically ran...

Dublin Series 1, Capital of Ireland... A Modern Vibrant Golfing City

March 06, 2020 / Golf History

Dublin Series 1, Capital of Ireland, a modern vibrant golfing City Golf in Dublin and County Dublin Dublin is unique as a golfing city as it has links golf courses within the city. From the city centre Royal Dublin and St Anne&rsqu...

The World's Greatest 100 Golf Courses

February 19, 2020 / Featured destinations

It’s tempting to describe the ranking of the World 100 Greatest Golf Courses as a contest between advanced age and youth, legends versus new kids, Old Guard versus Upstarts. (The opening photo is No. 2, Tara Iti) I’m speak...

6 Unique Golf Experiences That You Only Get In Ireland

November 27, 2019 / Featured destinations

Introduction Golfers often visit Ireland to play the links golf courses because they are mainly found in the UK and Ireland. We have selected six golf experiences that are unique to Ireland. Four are courses, Old Head for its location,...

Golf In The Sun - Portugal: The Algarve Series 1

August 21, 2019 / Featured destinations

Golf in the Sun There are two excellent golf tour areas in Portugal, the Algarve on the south coast and Lisbon area on the west coast. If golf is your top priority then the Algarve is just ahead. For golf, culture...

Golf “Off the Beaten Track” Ireland Series 4 - County Clare and West Coast

June 13, 2019 / Featured destinations

Highlights County Clare and West Coast Introduction County Clare has two very special links golf courses Lahinch and Doonbeg just 18 miles apart. Shannon is the major West Coast International Airport. County Clare is usually a base ...

Golf “Off the Beaten Track” England Series 1 - The North coast of Cornwall and Devon

March 04, 2019 / Featured destinations

Golf “Off the Beaten Track” England Series Introduction International Golfers visiting England typically head for three areas. The most popular is the coast in the North West centred on Southport. A coastline of over 30 mi...

Golf - “Off The Beaten Track” Ireland Series 3: The South East

December 18, 2018 / Featured destinations

Golf - “Off the beaten track” Series – Ireland Ireland Series – 3 The South East This tour covers the Counties Wicklow, and Wexford on the coast, Carlow, Kilkenny just inland from them. You stay at two outstand...

Golf - “Off the beaten track" Series Wales

November 30, 2018 / Featured destinations

This series covers East, North, West and South Wales each in separate blogs. We put forward a typical itinerary for each area introducing courses that are challenging and almost without exception scenic. A significant percentage of Wales ca...

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