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County Sligo Golf Club
Rosses Point
County Sligo
Ireland |  | George Combe, Willie Campbell,Colt and Alison |  | Jim Robinson |
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County Sligo – or Rosses Point, as it is better known – is an exhilarating west coast links, situated in the heart of Yeats country. W.B.Yeats won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
County Sligo Golf Club started out with a nine-hole course, designed by George Combe (contriver in 1896 of the world's first handicap system), and opened for play in 1894. At the turn of the 20th century, Willie Campbell extended the course to 18 holes. The famous Colt and Alison partnership remodelled the course in 1927.
There are many spectacular golf courses in Ireland and County Sligo is no exception. The views of the Darty Mountains and Benbulben, Sligo’s limestone “Table Mountain”, are simply beautiful. Drumcliffe Bay sweeps around the golf course. Its fine long sandy beaches, the Atlantic and the harbour are often in full panoramic view. The Ox Mountains – Knockalong the highest peak – add a further dimension to the already stunning vista.
In the same vein as the scenery, County Sligo is a real joy. It’s a strategic links with dramatic undulations, raised plateau greens, run-offs, high ground, low ground, and cliffs, challenging bunkering, burns and dunes. County Sligo has it all, including unusual routing over three distinctly different sections. The back nine, especially the 11th to the 17th, played on the headland, are truly magnificent. The sheer individuality of holes and the varied terrain makes County Sligo an absolute must-play golf course.
County Sligo is the home of the West of Ireland Amateur Championship and host to other important amateur events. It was here, in 1981, that Declan Branigan won the Irish Amateur Close Championship, becoming the first Irishman to win three major Irish amateur titles in the same year. Earlier that year, Branigan won the West (also at County Sligo) and the East (at County Louth).
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In the section below, headed “Your Reviews”, are golf course reviews posted by visitors to the Top 100 website. There are no specific rules for reviewing a golf course except you MUST have played the golf course first. Merits of each course are left entirely to your discretion. Important factors, such as course location, condition (or presentation), course difficulty and historical importance are all left for you to judge and we have developed a simple rating system where you can allocate one score to each course. | |
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 |  | | Average Reviewers Score: |   | | Have just returned from playing Sligo, Enniscrone and Carne. While the other two are fine courses if at times verging on crazy golf this is the proper and best course of the three. Not a weak hole out there and in beautiful condition. Definitely a top ten Irish course.  | | 19 June 2010
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| | | A wonderful links in a spectacular picture-postcard setting. We played on a beautiful May morning in 2010. We were lucky, the wind didn't blow so we saw the course at perhaps its easiest. Everything was perfect, even the green fee. I would suggest 18th ranking for this course is a little unfair. Its surely worthy of a top 10. Magnificent. | | 20 May 2010
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| | | Rosses Point is a delight to play, different to the many other Irish courses you go to play with their massive dunes. Starts with fairly low-key holes, which climb to the highest point of the course where you can look down to see what lies ahead. It is these holes, which stand out. Holes 7 & 8 will really test you. The course is tough yet fair. We played Carne, Enniscrone and Rosses Point and I feel you won’t play three better courses in one trip. Considerably better value than some courses further south. You get the feeling Rosses Point is a real golfing club, you only have to look at the winners of the West of Ireland championship to see why. | | 14 June 2009
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| | | Surely one of the most scenic courses in Ireland and also one its fairest and best tests of golf. The back 9 is superb. Clubhouse faciliities very good also. Some very famous names appear as winners of the West of Ireland Championship here, Harrington, McIlroy et al - this shows the high regard the links are held in as a championship test. | | 26 August 2008
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| | | My wife and I played Co. Sligo on a beautifully sunny Aug.20.It was ,however,blowing a steady 25-35 mph which made the par 4 2nd a real test My favorite hole was the par 4 7th as a good drive and a perfect 7 wood cleared the water and came to rest 12 ' away.--I missed the putt but but continued to hit great drives and poor putts all the rest of the way. It is a beautiful course in which every hole is easily remembered back in the elegant clubhouse. The par 4 17th is a great hole as are 8, 10, 11 and the par 3 16th.Rosses Point is not to be missed. | | 07 September 2007
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| | What a fantastic setting on Rosses Point with fantastic views all around the place. I found the course on the other hand rather disappointing. It is definitely a good course with great looking fairways, good greens (apart from 2, but they had all newly been holed) but somehow it didn’t make it up for me. And the scruffy tee boxes surely didn’t help!! I found that all the courses I played in the area were better and more interesting. | | 05 September 2006
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| | | It's very hard to add anything to the reviews already submitted as they have stated everything about Sligo that needs to be said - a quirky opening three holes up and down the hill - shades of Gullane #1 here - a great elevated driving hole at the 5th, nice loop at the turn between the 9th and 12th then a wonderful series of holes along the coast from the par three 12th until the memorable, dog legged 17th that plays uphill all the way. The views of the Atlantic are simply stunning, the breeze is bracing and the clubhouse is a very hospitable place to end your round over a jar or two. However, I too think there is something not quite there to make this one of the real greats of Irish golf - a pity as it's so near and yet so far from being a lot higher in the rankings. Jim McCann | | 01 September 2006
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| | This course begins rather benignly and picks up on the 4th hole and continues to improve from there. The scenery is spectacular and if you prefer to play without dunes you'll love this track. The wind added its expected element of difficulty. Going out was long and coming back we had to leave the drivers in the bag. It's a good course, but one brick shy of a load. Whether it was the 16 overweight Americans playing in carts at a 6 hour pace or the opening three holes, it was hard to leave inspired. | | 11 July 2006
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| | | Rosses Point is a classic links course. The course incorporates some significant elevation changes and beautifully designed holes to produce a fun yet challenging course to play.
The first two holes are fairly ordinary par 4's, and the third is a somewhat unusual down hill par 5. After this you turn away from the clubhouse for an adventure into classic linksland and links golf holes. I found all the holes interesting, but the 17th may take the cake. This is a brutally long par 4, but the fairway runs out leaving a long 2nd shot, uphill, to a severly sloped green. Par here is magnificent. I've only played County Sligo once, but I would visit this course as often as I had the chance. | | 20 November 2005
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| | | County Sligo is an immaculately presented links golf course. The fairways are generously wide and the greens are true and fast. We played on a fairly benign day with no wind, the course was still a challenge but add some true links weather and it would be a lot tougher. The par 3’s are well bunkered and hard to hit, and the run of holes back to the clubhouse from the 12th were a pleasure to play. Highly recommended. | | 03 July 2005
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| | | Rosses Point is one of the best and fairest links courses I’ve had the pleasure to play. The scenery is spectacular and of course the mountain is always watching. After a gentle start and a somewhat out of character 2nd, the course really gets going and when you get out to the turn the feeling of peace and quiet is truly fantastic. The 14th is as tough a par four as you can get and the 17th is one of my favourite all time golf holes. To finish, you need a cracking drive just to reach the fairway across all sorts of trouble – it’s a wonderful conclusion to a remarkable course. If you get lucky with the weather, this is just about as close to links golfing heaven as you can get. Make the journey and sample it for yourself – you won’t be disappointed. | | 20 April 2005
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| | | There's just one thing to say about County Sligo - outstanding. One of the most memorable courses I've played...Ben Bulben seems to watch you all the way round and the ocean views (due to the fact that there no huge dunes in the way) are a complete joy. The best holes are in the middle of the round but the whole experience is simply divine. | | 21 July 2004
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