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Enniscrone Golf Club
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A most beautiful setting for a golf course, located in the town of Enniscrone, with views of Killala Bay, Bartra Island and sandy beaches, with Nephin and the Ox Mountains forming the backdrop. The course was founded in 1918, redesigned by Eddie Hackett in 1974 and by Donald Steel in 2001, and has a championship course, the Dunes, and a 9 hole course, Scurmore.There's two distinct types of holes here, rather flat and characterless, and 12 holes routed through good sized sandhills with good elevation changes, as the fairways pitch and roll through and over the dunes, playing to smallish greens on plateaus. There's some great elevated tee shots overlooking the beach and the course, and also brings the wind more in play than it usually is here. This is a brilliant golf course, made better by Donald Steel. The poa greens were in great shape, as was the balance of the course conditions. The final stretch 12-18, is great for a match play game. Enjoyable and worth the effort to find, and a third of the cost of Ballybunion!
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Posted by: LNewsome
Sep 30th, 2010
Very dramatic links. Dunes seem to top out around 80-100 feet high with some spectacular views on the back nine. The 1st was a nice introduction to the course with a generous opening tee shot and a second shot that must be threaded between two large dunes on either side of the fairway and green (reminiscient of the 5th at Bandon Dunes). The next four holes or so were through the dunes but were quite playable. Then came the easy part of the course on some flatter land. Holes 12-16 were back in the dunes and were quite difficult. Any missed shot could easily result in an x on the hole. 12 and 13 were quite quirky. Both were fairly short par 4's one a dogleg left and uphill and the other a dogleg right and downhill. 17 was a good short par 3 with dropoffs all around. Any shot missing the green proved to be a tough up and down. With a few exceptions, every green seemed to be perched up quite high from the fairway. The greens had more interesting internal contours than Carne. However, I felt both Carne and Enniscrone really lacked in variety in the green complexes.
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Posted by: McGregor
Oct 10th, 2009
Played here in conjunction with a trip to Carne and rosses Point. Just an excellent golf course at half the cost of other top profile courses in Ireland. Reminded me somewhat of Cruden Bay in a couple of areas with huge dunes defining the fairways, really a treat and a good solid test of golf. Great clubhouse, staff, and post round food and pints!
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Oct 14th, 2008
Terrifically good links course, easily as good as the more famous Irish ones and akin to a place of pilgrimage for its many fans. With not a tree in sight and the natural terrain of sand dunes and marine grasses beautifully incorporated into the well maintained course, this course is a joy for links lovers.