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Carton House Resort
Originally home to the Jameson Family, celebrated for their
Irish Whiskey, Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links is now an
international hotel, situated on the shoreline of a rugged
peninsula jutting out into the Irish Sea and home to a
magnificent 18-hole championship links.
Carton is home to two magnificent golf Quite different yet complimentary to The
courses, The O’Meara, a stunning parkland O’Meara, is The Montgomerie, opened in
spread, and The Montgomerie, an inland links- June 2003. This magnificent course was Colin
style creation. The transformation of the estate Montgomerie’s second course design – his
into a first-class golf resort began in 1999. In first in Ireland and the UK. Monty said of it:
2002, the first phase of the development saw “This is a unique project and I am privileged
the opening of the Mark O’Meara course. This to be associated with it. You can’t call it a
gorgeous parkland layout makes splendid use links course, but it plays like a links and has
of the historic demesne’s rolling hills, specimen all the characteristics of a links. In designing
trees and the River Rye. Feature holes include this course, I attempted to go back to a more
the 13th, 14th and 15th – a pair of par 3s traditional course.”
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.
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