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Lahinch Golf Club
Lahinch, County Clare, Ireland
Voted No. 11 in the Golf Monthly/HSBC
Top 120 UK Course Rankings - November 2006
Lahinch is one of Ireland's oldest golf clubs and is one of the best loved by both Irish golfers and visitors alike. The setting is superb, right beside the village of Lahinch adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean.
Lahinch's Old Course has benefited both from the natural characteristics of the terrain and from the genius of distinguished course architects. Since the initial laying out of the links, various improvements have been made over the years. Alexander Shaw was not long in realizing that the unique nature of this location deserved very special development. The obvious choice as architect was Old Tom Morris of St Andrews. He accepted the challenge, but other than laying out the tees and greens, he felt there was little he could do. He commented: 'I consider the links is as fine a natural course as it has ever been my good fortune to play over.' More praise was to follow. In 1927 Dr. Alister Mackenzie was invited to make a number of adjustments to the links. On completion he remarked, 'Lahinch will make the finest and most popular course that I, or I believe anyone else, ever constructed.' Not perhaps the most modest statement ever made, but coming from a man who would very shortly design Cypress Point on the Monterey Peninsula and later help to create the legendary Augusta, it can hardly be taken lightly.
In fact, Mackenzie was not too wide of the mark. Lahinch Golf Club has undoubtedly become one of the world's great classic links. It has all the ingredients of greatness: a glorious setting, a rich history, superb natural terrain and, where man has 'intervened', it has been through the hand of an outstanding architect. It also has a pair of notorious blind holes, a ruined castle and goats that roam freely on the dunes. Welcome to Lahinch. Savour the experience.
No. of holes: 18
Length: 6950 yards
Par: 72
Course Type: Links
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