Carton House Hotel
Glasson Country Hous
Faithlegg Golf Resort
Maynooth » Ireland
Carton House Hotel
Carton is home to two magnificent golf courses, The O’ Meara, a stunning parkland spread, and The Montgomerie, an inland links-style creation. The transformation of the estate into a first-class golf resort began in 1999. In 2002, the first phase of the development saw the opening of the Mark O’ Meara course. This gorgeous parkland layout makes splendid use of the historic demesne’ s rolling hills, specimen trees and the River Rye. Feature holes include the 13th, 14th and 15th – a pair of par 3s wrapped around a heroic par 5 – crossing the lazy loops of the river. The opportunity to gamble is paramount as is the sense of tranquillity that the holes create. Quite different yet complimentary to The O’ Meara, is The Montgomerie, opened in June 2003. This magnificent course was Colin Montgomerie’ s second course design – his first in Ireland and the UK. Monty said of it:“ This is a unique project and I am privileged to be associated with it. You can’ t call it a links course, but it plays like a links and has all the characteristics of a links. In designing this course, I attempted to go back to a more traditional course.”
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Athlone » Ireland
Glasson Country Hous
Located just over an hour from Dublin a stunning lakeside setting and offers Lough Ree and Killinure Bay. With a s hotel on-site, Glasson is ideally placed travelling across the country or for an golfing destination close to Dublin. Th by Christy O’ Connor Jr, is an exhilara parkland course, measuring 7,210 yar holes that will challenge and excite all 15th, has both its tee box and green s most photographed golf holes in Irela With the first nine holes overlooking L looking out across Killinure Bay, O’ Co Tom Reid to develop the course, desc scenic pieces of land I’ ve ever seen in recognised by the Irish Golf Tour Ope awarded the prestigious title of 2011 I
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