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ArklowNewest Review: ... with most Irish golf clubs, you can be assured of the warmest of welcomes. Look out for “Mr. Arklow”, Paddy Lipsett, an octogenarian of nearly seventy years who has played this course almost daily, man and boy, since it first opened in 1927. He will regale you with stories that will have you in tears of laughter, such is his “blarney”, and a finer gentleman and ... more |
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by kenjohn - written on 19/01/01 (Very useful, 48 readings)
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INTRODUCTION +++++++++++++ ~ ~ This is a review I have been looking forward to writing, as this little Co. Wicklow course is one of my favourites within easy striking distance of Dublin, being 45 miles from the capital Dublin, on the main Rosslare road. ~ ~ A par 69 of around 6,700 yards in length, it is often said in golf circles that “if you can play to your handicap at Arklow, you can break par anywhere else”. In other words, it is no “pushover”. ~ ~ Now, I might as well come clean up-front, and tell you that I was a member of this Golf Club from 1980 to 1998, so it will always have a special place in my memories. ...


