A Golf Vacation Ireland
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 - 3:29 pm
With one Ryder cup venue firmly in hand, Ireland has secured its place as the natural destination for many seeking fantastic golf holidays. But if you leave The K Club out of our discussion, Ireland can still dazzle the golf travel enthusiast with over 400 courses spread across an exquisite geography.
Separated from mainland Europe almost 8000 years ago, Ireland is the 3rd largest island in the continent and home to a little less than 6 million people. A mild, temperate climate peppered with generous rainfall leaves Ireland’s landscape lush and green earning it the sobriquet of Emerald Isle. It only helps a golf vacation that Ireland is also blessed with a variety of geography from plains and river sides to sandy beaches. You can stride out on every kind of surface on a golf tour in Ireland! (more…)