Michigan Golf Journal October 2021

Here are 10 of the best on the island of Ireland with green fees ranging from €35 (about $41) to £105 (about $146). Southeast Rosslare – Co. Wexford (60 minutes south of the European Club) It says so much about the golf in this country that a course like Rosslare, designed by Fred G. Hawtree and five-time Open champion JH Taylor and opened in 1925, is barely known outside it. The club abandoned its original nine holes for 18 on a superb stretch of linksland a little further north in 1925 and since then little has changed. Rosslare is a fairly standard out and back routing about the same width as the Old Course at St. Andrews and possesses the sort of humps, hollows, cropped turf and random contours that make links golf such an adventure. €50 – rosslaregolf.com Arklow – Co. Wicklow (15 minutes south of The European Club) Hawtree and Taylor laid out the course on classic linksland in 1927 since then a few changes have had to be made due to the ever-meddlesome Irish Sea. Eddie Hackett, the Godfather of Irish course design, was called upon to restore some lost holes in the 1970s and, toward the end of the century, Eddie B. Connaughton, who specialized in turf care and agronomy but also redesigned a number of courses, made several alterations. Arklow is a 35 October 2021 www.michigangolfjournal.com Portsalon