Knight in Shining Armour... and a great day of golf at Strandhill

The par three 6th at Mulranny
(green to tee and ocean beyond)

A doff of the cap, a nod of the head, a smile and a thank you... whatever way you want to play it, a big congratulations to Strandhill Golf Club. Next Sunday (March 30th) the club is hosting an Open Fourball Rumble with all proceeds going to Mulranny Golf Club.

If you don't already know, Mulranny was battered by the February storms. Set on the picturesque Clew Bay, the Atlantic whipped thousands of rocks onto the golf course, covering fairways and ripping away the sea defences. 

Storms Give Irish Golf A Battering

Adare team lost on the course

The storms of last week have been brutal on Irish golf courses. A few minutes trawling Boards, Facebook and Twitter reveals a litany of disasters that will blight our golf courses for years if not decades to come. Many of the trees were hundreds of years old.

Most striking are the 300 trees up-ended at Limerick Golf Club and over 350 toppled at both Dundrum and Kilkenny golf clubs – many were signature trees on the clubs' densely tree-lined fairways.