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Golf In Ireland

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The Royal Curragh Golf Club was the first golf club built in Ireland in 1853. Golf in Ireland continues to enjoy a healthy patronage rating fourth in the Top Ten Most Popular Sporting Activities of 2008.[1] Also in 2008, membership in the Golfing Union of Ireland was at 166,419 and membership in the Irish Ladies Golf Union was 49,822, making them third and seventh in the Top Ten Sports by Club/Association Membership respectively.[1] Golf ranks third in Euros spent on activities in Ireland by overseas travelers bringing 183m in 2012.[2] In the same year, the game of golf contributed over 15b Euros to the total European economy.[3] In 2007, Pádraig P. Harrington became the first golfer from the Republic of Ireland to win The Open Championship, the oldest of the four Men's major championships.

History of Golf in Ireland

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Organizations

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Tournaments

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Notable Courses

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Aerial View of Portmarnock Golf Club and peninsula

The Republic of Ireland has twenty-six different counties, seven different types of regions, and nearly 300 different courses to suit any golfers needs.[4] Courses in the West offer views alongside the Atlantic Ocean which symbolize links-style golf instead of the standard Country Club "tree-lined" look. Then there are courses with great history such as Portmarnock in the Dublin region, which was home to fifteen Irish Opens. If you are looking to play what our golfing forefathers played on, then there are courses that were established in the 19th-Century such as Lahinch in County Clare (1894) and the Royal Curragh Golf Club in Kildare (1858) that still receive great amounts of play and tourism. Here is a list of notable courses in the Republic of Ireland;[5]

 
A view of the town from Ballybunion Golf Club
 
The fourth hole at Lahinch Golf Club

Irish Golfers

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Pádraig Harrington was the first golfer from the Republic of Ireland to win The Open Championship. Other notable Irish golfer's include; Sir Alexander William Shaw Founder of Limerick and Lahinch golf clubs; Rhona Adair, a female Irish golfer who contributed to the first American book on golfing for women entitled Golf for Women in 1904;[6] and Paddy Skerritt who won many Irish tournaments with his greatest success at the 1970 Alcan International.[7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Assesment of Economic Impact of Sport in Ireland" (PDF). Indecon International Economic Consultants. pp. 27, 29. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Activity product usage among overseas visitors in 2012" (PDF). Fáilte Ireland. p. 3. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  3. ^ "The Economic Impact On Golf On The Economy Of Europe" (PDF). Sports Marketing Surveys Inc. p. 7. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Golf Courses of Ireland". Wold Golf. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  5. ^ "Ireland - Top 100 Golf Courses". Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  6. ^ Genevieve Hecker. "Golf for Women". Classics of Golf. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  7. ^ a b Alliss, Peter (1983). The Who's Who of Golf. Orbis Publishing. p. 294. ISBN 0-85613-520-8. Cite error: The named reference "alliss" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Harry Bradshaw" The Times, 24 December 1990; pg. 10; Issue 63897.
  9. ^ Gorry, Paul (Autumn–Winter 2014). "Pat Doyle". Irish Clubhouse. p. 5.
  10. ^ "Miss Hollins Loses National Match by Driving Into Ditch at Last Hole". New York Times. October 19, 1913. Retrieved 2009-12-29. Except for a brief period in the early stages of the match which stood 1 down, Miss Gladys Ravenscroft, of England, former British title holder, always had the upper hand throughout the final round against Miss Marion Hollins, of Westbrook, L.I., in the woman's national golf championship on the links of the Wilmington Country Club to-day. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  11. ^ "British Women Seek Golf Title". Hartford Courant. October 12, 1913. Retrieved 2009-12-29. The next big event in the golfing world starts tomorrow when the women's national championship will be staged at the Wilmington Country Club, Wilmington, Del., and finish Saturday, October 18. A prize will be given to the winner making the lowest score in the qualifying round, and ... Miss Mary Harrison. Ex-Champion Golf Player of Ireland. ... {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  12. ^ "2010 Curtis Cup Roster". USGA. Archived from the original on 4 December 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
  13. ^ http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/wicklow/photos/tombstones/1headstones/redford-cath02.txt WICKLOW, Redford (Catholic) Cemetery, Greystones, Co.Wicklow No.286
  14. ^ "Death of Paddy Skerritt". The Irish Times. 23 November 2001. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  15. ^ "Skerritt dies at 71". RTÉ. 23 November 2001. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
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