Golf Course Profile
18-Hole (Private)
European Club, The
IRE Brittas Bay, Co. Wicklow
Brittas Bay, Leinster
Ireland
Phone: +353-(0)404-47 415
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Golfers community
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About the Club
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Year built:
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1987
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Designer:
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Pat Ruddy
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Club type:
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Private
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Season:
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Open all year
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Guest Policy:
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Open Membership Certificate/Green Card required.
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Dress Code:
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No denim, collared shirt required
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AVERAGE USER RATING
Not rated
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About the course
This is one ne of Ireland's Big Six. The links of the European Club was voted one of Ireland's six greatest golf courses in 1995 in the company of Portmarnock, Royal Portrush, Royal County Down, Ballybunion and Waterville. The European is rated #44 of "The 100 greatest courses in the British Isles", Golf World 11/96. Golfers seldom get to play as close to the ocean as they do on the twelfth and thirteenth holes at The European Club where many players get to flounder on the actual beach ! The links of The European Club has been designed to perpetuate and modernize the traditional values of links golf. 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 shotmaking skills. Fast running fairways, greens that invite the pitch-and-run approach and acres of tall, waving marram grass and golden-flowered gorse are the very essence of golf as it was at the beginning and was always meant to be. All modern golf is merely a copy of the original with mounding, bunkering and the other main features of golf's landscape borrowed and adapted from dunesland golf. Archaic features such as blind shots have been banished largely from the agenda at The European Club with fourteen holes offering a completed tee-to-green vista; and the landing area for the drive is clearly visible on the others. At first glance, the links present an awesome challenge with fairways seeming to be only ribbons through the sandhills; and what is one to do about those yawning cross-bunkers? The seventh hole, a par 4 of 435 yards/398 metres, illustrates the design concept best. A small river hugs the fairways, and the green, all the way on the right. One doesn't want to have anything to do with that. Watching play on the tenth hole, a par 4 of 416 yards/380 metres, will produce examples of this ill-judged modern aggression. The links is greatly enhanced by the beach being in play as an integral part of the course on holes twelve and thirteen; and by the fact that the cliffs of Mizen Head are a constant threat on hole fifteen. No other major links brings the seashore so strongly into play. No other links allows the golfer to admire sweeping sea views from seventeen holes. This is true seaside golf on crisp seaside turf - a great trip to the land of golf where each round is so varied, so demanding, and so exciting that you will ever come back. The European Club is a private club with a visitor friendly policy. Guests are welcome daily providing they have basic playing skills and a knowledge and appreciation of the etiquette of the sport. The European ranks no. 44 of the 100 greatest courses in the British Isles (Golf World Magazine 11/96). Courses nearby: Blainroe. Druids Glen. Woodenbridge.
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