Ardglass Golf Club
Castle Place,
Ardglass, Down BT30 7TP
Tel : +44 (0)1396 841219 Fax : +44 (0)1396 841841
Directions
10 km south east of Downpatrick on the B1
Further Information
Club and trolley hire available. Bar and restaurant (evening) on site.
Course Details
| Course Name: Ardglass Holes: 18 Yardage: 6063 SSS: 69 |
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Enda McLarnon wrote on: Sep 1, 2000
Playing of the wonderful handicap of "28", I played this wonderful course on a beautiful summer's day. The views were breath taking and the course challenged out four balls to the extreme. We were a mixed bunch of handicappers ranging from 16 through to 28.
I managed to score an amazing 36 points off the stapleford rules to win the competition that day, so my views are slightly biased.
The first five holes winding around the coast are a fit challenge to any golfer. Standing on the first tee and trying not to look left is a challenge in itself.
The course is in excellent order and the par 3 holes a fantastic challenge. I had a wonderful day and would highly recommend this course to any level of golfer.
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Mike O'Shea wrote on: Sep 1, 1998
I'm a local, so I am biased! But the first time I tottered over the course was 60 years ago, so I know it well. A great clubhouse (formerly Ardglass Castle, summer home of the Earls of Kildare), good booze and even better grub (Damien O'Hare is Chef & will cook what you order) I especially like the scampi - local prawns coated in fluffy, crackly dip.
The course? When I first played, fifty years ago, during the 2nd world war, you started out at 5'9' tall and came back at 5'11' - because of the sheep droppings build up on your shoes - but that was wartime and we had to grow and graze for victory - even if your Course was only nine holes.
Now it's a fine 18-holes - and another practice 9 in the making - stretching along a superb coastline, the Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea, beyond the cliffs and rocks to your left as you play the first Nine, with the Mountains of Mourne clearly visible from the 3rd hole onwards - twenty miles away, 'sweeping down to the sea'. A wonderful succession of views on a warm summer's day - sufficient to distract from the worst standard of golf.
Look out for the short 2nd, over the great chasm of Howd's Hole and the equally short 11th, Caitlin Rock, with Van Morrison's Coney Island on the right. (You can still, by the way 'head over the hill for Ardglass, to buy potted herring (on Ardglass Quay) in case you get famished'.) By any standard the course at Ardglass provides a good golfing test: not Championship Standard, but not far off it, and a really welcoming crowd, whether on the course or at the 19th. You might like it.
P.S. While you are there wander up to my Cousin Mannie's Bar - the 'Old Commercial', just outside the AGC gates. Been in our family 150 years. Grand place for a 'jar'. You'll probably find me sitting there - or just fallen off a stool, beaming at the fine old woodwork ceiling overhead.
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