You won't need telling that I am a fan of golf (nay life) in Ireland. Of the courses we played in our sadly now discontinued excursions to the Dunmore Classic (tempus fugit and we couldn't carry on at that pace) the best of them was the Old Course at Tramore. The 'Old' is important because the golf club (like many in that great island) found themselves fleetingly awash with money and built an extra nine holes which are too modern in idiom and threaten to ruin the atmosphere of the original course. Oh well.
I have reproduced the card of the Old Course (the distances are in metres, lest you mistake it for a pushover) so that you can judge what a well-balanced challenge it, notwithstanding some dubious architectural interventions, remains.
The 17th may not be long but it is an exquisite piece of design. It turns, late in its course, sharply to the left such that your driving area is deceptively confined - you have to go counter-intuitively wide right. The green itself is a work of art, very wide but shallow. All framed by mature trees.
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