[Photo: the par four, downhill 8th]
Carlow Golf Club can be played for €30. The details and terms and conditions are here (notably, green fees are valid Monday to Friday, but they're valid until August 16th), but this is not an offer you'll see very often from a club of this quality. Carlow is one of the old distinguished gentlemen of Irish golf - it's classy, somewhat aloof and old school. It feels very natural and it has also been left relatively untouched in the cut and thrust of the modern game that demands length and endless mounding and shaping. Simply compare Carlow to nearby Mount Wolseley and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Holes like 4, 7, 8, 14 and 16 are worth the green fee alone, and that doesn't include the four sweet par threes.
[Photo: the lethal par four 16th]
There's only a day or so left (offer ends lunchtime Friday 18th) so take a look at the offer and start rounding up your friends.
