Dunmore East, by a margin the least impressive of the five courses on the rota for the Dunmore Classic, is an uneven course - too many prosaic holes running back and forth to no great effect. But when you get to the clifftop holes you are in for a visual treat.
I have already alerted you to my predilection for downhill par 3s and today's is that with bells on. The 14th at Dunmore falls energetically down to the cliffs. All you can see is the green and the Irish Sea. Being coastal there is invariably a wind, either straight into you or pushing you down to the green. Neither is easy - there is out of bounds at the back of the green and if you are playing in a following wind you are not going to hold the green with a full shot. That said, this 200 yard tester really comes into its own when the strong wind is in your face. Sometimes driver isn't enough. I once hit the most comically deviant left-handed double-cross off this tee. It dived right and disappeared from view, supposed by all to have buried itself in the rubbish. It transpired to be even worse that that. I found the ball sitting insolently on the eighteenth tee later in the round. It must have been a hundred yards off line. Bloody lucky I didn't kill someone.
Friendly clubhouse. Good Guiness. Naturally.
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