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Course Review
DOONBEG GOLF CLUB, Doonbeg, Co.Clare, Ireland
WEBSITE: www.doonbeggolfclub.com
COURSE DETAIL
| Founded: | 2001 |
| Designer: | Greg Norman |
| Championship Length: | 6,818 yards |
| PAR: | 72 (37-35) |
| SSS (Course Rating): | TBA |
| Type: | Links |
RATES
Green fees for non-members are €185.
LOCATION
Situated less than 2 miles from Doonbeg village and approximately 6 miles from Kilkee, the entrance to Doonbeg Links is on the main N67 route from Doonbeg to Kilkee on the right hand side.
ABOUT THE COURSE
Doonbeg Golf Links opened for general play in July 2002 and immediately dropped jaws and stirred conversation. The course has already taken its place among the great courses of the Irish southwest (located just a few miles south of Lahinch) with its terrific design crafted by Greg Norman through the grassy dunes that rise almost 100 feet above the crashing shoreline of the Atlantic Ocean.
It weaves around, over and through spectacular dunes and is everything you expect from a true links with the natural feel of a course that was identified to have phenonmenal potential for development back in 1982. Finding a new links course of this caliber is a rarity and unheard of.
This is modern golf in an old world setting. Yet it is one simple verse written by an unknown author that best describes the scene:
"You have heard in song and story of the beauties of all lands,
Of their hills and dales and mountains, and their rivers, lakes and strands,
But of all those wondrous places you can read of, hear and see,
There are none of them to rival Old Doonbeg by the sea."
Combine Doonbeg with Lahinch and Ballybunion and you will be playing three of southwest Ireland’s best.