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Curragh - The Curragh Golf Club - Curragh
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Yardage 6035 for the men; 4928 for the ladies.
A course unique (Irelands oldest) in that it is built on an open grassland plain which is designated a National Heritage Area. The natural grassy sward provides for excellent drainage. The wide variety of holes, together with the spacious layout, ensures that new challenges are always at hand. On first assessment it appears that the Course provides a licence fur the 'wild hit' as the rough is short and there are generous tracts of ground between fairways. However, clever tactics are required to navigate well placed grassy banks, a variety of trees and the beautiful native gorse. Its length and natural vegetative hazards quickly compel the over ambitious to re-assess their target score. The course is extremely popular to visiting golfers and societies.
Military requirements over the years demanded that the course be changed many times. Barracks, parade grounds and firing ranges stand where there were fairways and greens. The Club continues to play over this historic area of the Curragh plains which encompasses trenches dug by soldiers preparing for the First World War, a Cavalry Camp and the Abattoir (demolished in 1996) which dated back to the year of the Curragh Camp's foundation in 1885. The Curragh Camp was handed over by the British Army to the Irish Defence Forces on 16th May 1922. |
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The Curragh Golf Club - Curragh - Ireland
Tel. +353 (0)45 441238 |
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