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Waterville Golf Links

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 "Everything about Waterville is spectacular, the setting is one of the best I have seen anywhere in golf"
Tom Fazio

Club description

Golf at Waterville is a mystical experience – the beauty of classic links land, surrounded by the sea, yet forever challenged and shaped by the elements.

Links golf combines sand dunes gorse and native grasses, firm fairways, sod faced bunkers and subtle putting surfaces all intertwined by the ever changing weather. Forget the lob wedge.

Think bump and run and creative shot making. Are you ready to walk in the footsteps of Irelands earliest golfers?

Location: Waterville, County Kerry, Ireland
Year founded: 1889
Courses: The Links
Architect: Eddie Hackett (1973), Tom Fazio (2006)

Club Overview

Signature Holes

Hole #12 - 200 yards par 3

Mass Hole - asks for spot-on accuracy across 200 yards of carry over a frightening gorse covered dunescape from elevated tee to elevated postage.

Hole #17 - 194 yards par 3

Mulcahy's Peak - Without fear, it requires hitting out toward the from elevated tee boxes, often into significant Atlantic breeze, and across treacherous rough covered dunes to a rambling, elevated green.

Scorecard

Course played: The Links
Date played: 4th September, 2011