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Classic Southwest Ireland Golf Exclusive

What’s Included:

This tour is available subject to the accommodations and courses being available on the chosen dates. We recommend that airfares not be booked until all starting times and accommodations are confirmed.

YOUR ITINERARY

Day 1: Arrive Shannon and travel to Waterville, Ring of Kerry. Rest of the day to relax. Overnight Waterville in a 4-star guesthouse.

Day 2: Play Skellig Bay. Overnight 4-star guesthouse.

Situated on the beautiful Ring of Kerry, Waterville has long been a Mecca for discerning golfers. Overlooking the majestic Ballinskelligs Bay and set among natural megalithic stonework and indigenous bog deal, there can be few more visually stunning locations for a golf course than Skellig Ba. The course opened for play in Spring 2006 and has already been rated in Irelands “Top 50”.

Nestled in the shadows of the towering McGillicuddy Reeks, the golfer has to negotiate the river Fionnglass for the opening and closing holes but it is the stretch from six to sixteen that lives in memory long after the last putt has been sunk. Here the awesome beauty of the Bay hits you full in the face as you play through holes framed by over 8000 yards of ancient “famine” walls. Original standing stones from pre-Christian times and a fairy fort all add to an unforgettable round as you experience an unbelievable feeling of another time and place.

Day 3: Play Waterville . Overnight 4-star guesthouse.

Less than one percent of all the courses in Ireland and the British Isles are championship links. Waterville is one of these. It is no wonder that the world’s best players test their mettle here.

Golf at Waterville is a mystical experience – the beauty of classic links land, surrounded by the sea, yet forever challenged and shaped by the elements.

Over 100 years old, Waterville is rated among the top 5 courses in Ireland and the top 20 links courses in the world. Links golf combines sand dunes gorse and native grasses, firm fairways, sod faced bunkers and subtle putting surfaces all intertwined by the ever changing weather.

Day 4: Play Dooks. Travel to Killarney. Overnight Muckross Park Hotel (5 star hotel)

Dook Golf Club, owned by its members, was founded in 1889 and is one of the 5 oldest Links in Ireland, The charm, the atmosphere and the superb seaside setting of a truly traditional golf links makes Dooks a golf experience that has to be experienced at least once in a lifetime.

Originally a 9-hole course, it was laid out at the end of the 19th century. In 1970s the members designed and built an extra 9 holes which for many years was considered a gem. In 2002 the club employed the services of Martin Hawtree, renowned Golf Links Architect, to revamp the 18 holes. The result has been an unqualified success.

The Course is now nearly 6600 yards from the back tees, but don’t be over ambitious. The course from the White tees, which even though short by modern standards, will test every club in the bag and that’s on a calm day! If there is even a “gentle” Atlantic breeze. Dooks is a place where every par feels like a birdie, but irrespective of the conditions or what you score, the stunning panoramic views will remain in your mind and make you want to come back again and again.

Day 5: Play Tralee. Overnight Muckross Park Hotel.

Tralee Golf Club is proudly basking in the glow of being voted winners of the Golf Course of the Year Award by the Irish Golf Tour Operators Association (IGTOA).

Opened in October 1984 Tralee Golf Course was the first European golf course designed by Arnold Palmer. When he first saw the area upon which his company was to build Tralee golf links, he was ecstatic about the possibilities. “I have never come across a piece of land so ideally suited for the building of a golf course” he said.

Day 6: Travel to Ballybunion. Play Ballybunion Cashen. Overnight in Ballybunion, The Tides Guesthouse or similar.

Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Senior, and first opened for play in 1982, the Trent-Jones Cashen Course is Ballybunion’s magnificent new course, located among amazingly high sand dunes at the mouth of the River Cashen.

To say the course looks natural in its setting is to do it an injustice. The course flows with the land and uses the natural contours to full potential. This is a dateless golf course which after playing makes you ask yourself if you’ve ever played amid quite such surroundings.

Rated in the top 100 by Golf Magazine, the vast majority of Cashen’s green positions have been copied by many new course designers. Spectacular and supremely challenging, what can never be copied is the majestic landscape and fresh sea air that is distinctly part of the Ballybunion experience.

Day 7: Play Ballybunion Old. Overnight in Ballybunion.

Located on the Shannon estuary, it is a true seaside links course, virtually treeless and a course of sharp contours throughout. There appears to be no man- made influence. It looks like a course laid out on land back in the 10th century.There is a wild look to the place the long grass covering the dunes that pitch and roll throughout the course making it very intimidating. Yet the course is eminently fair. While there would appear to be a lot of blind shots, there aren’t. Even where there are blind shots, you are given a good idea where you must hit the ball.

“Having played the Old Course in Ballybunion many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world.” Tom Watson - Millennium Ballybunion Captain and 5 time British Open Winner

Day 8: Depart Shannon.

For more information and to book this package, call 800-863-9067.