Golfing holidays and golf breaks in Ireland.
European Golf Club
Brittas Bay, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Voted No. 15 in the Golf Monthly/HSBC
Top 120 UK Course Rankings - November 2006
The links of the European Club has developed into one of Ireland's finest links golf courses in a relatively short period of time. The reason for this is 'quality', a trait that is inherent at the European Club. The combination of rugged dunes, deep bunkers, sea breezes and large undulating greens calls on the golfer to display strength of character, an ability to think and shot making skills.
The design of the European Club has attempted to modernize the traditional values of links golf and this has been achieved with magnificent results. Blind shots, deemed by many as an archaic feature of links golf, have largely been banished from the agenda at the European Club, with 14 holes offering a complete tee to green vista and the remaining holes providing a clearly visible landing area.
At first glance, the European Club presents an awesome challenge, with yawning bunkers and fairways seeming like mere ribbons through the sand hills. Fast running fairways, greens that invite the pitch and run approach and acres of tall, waving grasses and golden flowered gorse are of course, the very essence of links golf and all remain in abundance at the European Club.
The layout here offers an irregular pattern of pars, with three par 3's and like Royal Birkdale, Turnberry and the Old Course at St. Andrews, only two par 5's. The heart of your round at the European Club is the stretch from holes 7 through 13, which features six substantial par 4's and one bone crunching par 5 of almost 600 yards. Make no mistake that this is a links designed to be great. Growth and time will see the course develop from a great links to one of the world's finest. But as the saying goes "The man who made time, made plenty of it". We'll just wait and see.
No. of holes: 18
Length: 7149 yards
Par: 71
Course Type: Links
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