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The
Old Course:
Course
type : |
Links |
Founded
: |
1947 |
Par
: |
71 |
| Yards
: |
6604 |
SSS
: |
72 |
Designers
: |
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Local
members |
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Glashedy
Links:
Course
type : |
Links |
Founded
: |
1995 |
Par
: |
72 |
| Yards
: |
7135 |
SSS
: |
74 |
Designers
: |
|
Tom Craddock
& Pat Ruddy |
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Located in the far north of Donegal on the Inishowen Peninsula,
golf has been played here since the 16th century. The road
to Ballyliffen via Letterkenny & Buncrana will guide you
through some of Inishowens 100 mile scenery.
It was once the best kept secret in golf, but Ballyliffin
has recently been described as “The Ballybunion of the
North”. Situated close to Malin Head on Donegal’s
Inishowen Peninsula, Ireland’s most northerly links
comprises 305 acres of spectacular duneland and is practically
surrounded by rolling hills and mountains with the only other
boundary being the Atlantic ocean.
Faldo described the Old Links at Ballyliffen as “the
most natural golf course I have ever seen”, and club
members will proudly boast that the chief architect was Mother
Nature.
The
designers Pat Ruddy and Tom Craddock were blessed with such
fine natural terrain when they set about enhancing Ballyliffen
into a new 36 hole resort. The addition of Glashedy Links
which measures in excess of 7000 yards to the Old Links course
makes this destination a must for the golf traveller.
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1
mile away is Dunluce Castle built on the
edge of a cliff in the 16th Century on the north Antrim coast
by Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster.
3
miles away is the Giants Causeway.A natural
wonder whose six-sided basalt columns were formed by volcanic
eruptions thousands of years ago. Over 40,000 hexagonal columns,
some with four, five, seven, and eight sides, create unique
shapes. Some are 40 feet high and 90 feet thick.
Just
up the road is Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge,
(swinging bridge) as it extends over an 80-foot ravine above
the sea between the mainland and a small island. The bridge
is accessible via a one-mile walk along a cliff path. It is
in position during fishing season only (April - September).
40
miles away is the walled city of Derry
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