| This combination of spectacular courses celebrates the wild
ruggedness of the Atlantic Seaboard and the challenge of playing
golf on it. This tour captures the panoramic splendour of the
north and west coast, the charm of the people there and some
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| Price Per Person
From: $2225 CDN |
| based on 8 people and double occupancy. |
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| Itinerary includes: |
| 6 nights accommodation |
| Full Irish Breakfast each morning |
| 5 Rounds of Golf |
| Chauffeur driven luxury coach |
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Royal
Portrush Golf Club
Simply put, the Dunluce course at Royal Portrush is one of the
world's finest links courses and the only course in Ireland
to have hosted the British Open. Overlooked by the ruins of
the 13th Century Dunluce Castle it is a masterpiece of golf
architecture. Famous for its magnificent turf and excellent
holes, many of which require long and accurate drives made all
the more difficult by the high winds. Unimaginable rough and
tricky greens, thrown with windy conditions make this course
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Ballyliffen
- Old Links
Nick Faldo visited Ballyliffin in June 1993 and described The
Old Links as the most natural golf course he had ever seen.
The Old Links is a classically old fashioned links. It oozes
charm, character and curiosity. More than anything, it is the
extraordinary terrain that makes a game on the Old Links such
a unique experience: stand on any tee and the fairway ripples
and tumbles in each and every direction. The principal architect
of the links was of course, Mother Nature. |
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Ballyliffen
- Glashedy Links
Described as "The Ballybunion of the North" Ballyliffen is Ireland's
most northerly links and comprises 365 acres of spectacular
dune land, surrounded by rolling hills and mountains with the
Atlantic Ocean as its western boundary. Glashedy Links opened
for play in August 1995 and its location on the north western
Atlantic Coast makes it a magnificent setting. Designed by Pat
Ruddy and Tom Craddock, it has been laid out on predominantly
higher ground above and beyond the Old Links. The challenge
presented by the Glashedy Links is almost as formidable as it
is exhilarating. |
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Cruit Island Golf
Club
This is links golf as primitive as it comes. Cruit is a top
class course, very short but also very challenging. The wild
Atlantic is never far away and provides a magnificent backdrop
for many shots. There's always a wind blowing and it's usually
never the same 2 days in a row. The par 3 sixth is one of the
best par threes you will ever play. Both the green and tee are
set on peninsulas so either too short or too long and you're
gone, with the wind blowing it can vary from a 3 wood to a wedge.
It's only 9 hole but it will be challenging for even the best
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Donegal
Golf Club (Murvagh)
Lying in the bosom of Donegal Bay, this superb links occupies
an elegant peninsula which is backed by the magnificent Blue
Stack Mountains. "Hauntingly beautiful and an excellent test
of Golf", is how Peter Dobereiner of the English Observer described
it. The course is presented in two loops of nine where the fairways
wend their way by the Atlantic dunes and the sage-green grasses
of the bay. The course suits big hitters of the ball as the
ever-present ocean breezes ensure that it plays long and challenging
most of the time. The par 3 fifth is called "The Valley of Tears",
and it has proved just that for the golfer short on skill and
nerve. |
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