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IRELAND - The European Club is situated at Brittas Bay in Co. Wicklow, on the main road south from Dublin to the ferry port of Rosslare, and about a 45-minute drive from the capital Dublin. It is the first new links course to be built in Ireland for nearly 100 years, and opened for play on St. Stephen’s Day, 1992.
The brainchild of golfing aficionado Pat Ruddy, golf course architect of growing renown and owner and editor of ‘Golf Illustrated’ magazine, it is already ranked as the 24th best golf course in the world, an almost unbelievable achievement for a course so young.
I knew the small bay on which it is built long before the golf club ever opened, and on many occasions remarked to my wife that it was an ideal spot for a golf course. But it took the vision and foresight of Pat Ruddy to make this a reality. What he has created from the scrubland and sand dunes will live on for centuries to come, and ensure his name is always remembered in the world of golf.
The overall par of the course is 71, and the length of the championship tees is 7,089 yards. To give you some idea of the degree of difficulty, I have only ever managed to break 80 once in nine years of playing here, and I have played to a single figure handicap for all of that time. |
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The European Golf Club - Brittas Bay - Ireland
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