Golf Adventure Guides BLOG

Ireland’s Top Golf Courses

As rated by Backspin Magazine’s 2010 Voting Panel — comprised of 54 Irish professionals, amateurs, and golf media — here are the top-ranked golf courses in Ireland for 2010. [Read More…]


IGAG Search Story

Do you want to take another ho-hum golf trip or do you want to create a Golf Adventure? You decide! [Read More…]


2010 Ireland & Scotland Guide Updates

The Ireland Golf Adventure Guide and Scotland Golf Adventure Guide have been updated for 2010. [Read More…]


Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club

Here’s a beautifully-produced video of Machrihanish Dunes, now open for play. In addition to breathtaking footage of the linksland, the course architect David McLay Kidd discusses his role in creating this gem. [Read More…]


Irish Open at Baltray (Co. Louth)

The 2009 Irish Open is at Baltray (Co. Louth) Golf Club this week. In the field, of note: Padraig Harrington, Rory Macilroy, and John Daly. Watch video highlights from the PGA European Tour or watch it “live” on the Golf Channel. [Read More…]


A Course Called Ireland

New from Tom Coyne, A Course Called Ireland is the story of a walking- averse golfer who treks his way around an entire country, spending sixteen weeks playing every seaside hole in Ireland and often battling through all four seasons in one Irish afternoon. [Read More…]


Great Value for Money in 2009

If you’re thinking it’s too expensive to plan a Scotland golf trip in 2009, think again. Here’s some good news from VisitScotland.com: [Read More…]


2009 Ireland & Scotland Guide Updates

The Ireland Golf Adventure Guide and Scotland Golf Adventure Guide have been updated for 2009. [Read More…]


Carne Golf Links

On a recent golf trip to Ireland and had the opportunity to again play one of my favorite courses in Ireland, Carne Golf Links (Belmullet). If you haven’t played Carne, I highly recommend it.

The November 2005 issue of Golf Magazine has an excellent article about Carne, and opens with this:

When you first see the links from the back of the clubhouse, Carne takes your breath away. An untamed furl of land sitting between the Atlantic Ocean and Blacksod Bay in northwest Ireland, Carne is a panorama of greens and browns, of wide open spaces suddenly braked by the shadows of marram-covered dunes. But as your eyes follow the slopes uphill, they’re suddenly jolted as the land crashes into frantic breakneck falls down cavernous valleys pocked with craters that look like scars left by exploded artillery shells.

Next time you’re in Ireland, take a break from usual suspects (Lahinch, Ballybunion, Tralee, etc.) and make your way up north to play courses like Carne, Enniscrone, Donegal, etc. You won’t regret it. The photo above was taken by me. If you’d like to see the beauty of Carne as visualized by a professional golf course photographer, check out Aidan Bradley’s photos of Carne for a real treat.

More details about Carne Golf Links and on the best way to plan a golf trip to Ireland can be found in the Ireland Golf Adventure Guide.


Golf Word Art

Here’s a cool image created at Wordle.net using the text found on this blog:

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Remember, now more than ever it pays to plan your own golf trip to Ireland and Scotland rather than pay a tour operator to do what you can easily do yourself.