The world’s most spectacular golf course
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Ireland’s Old Head has just been ranked the ‘Most Spectacular Golf Course on the Planet’ in America’s Links magazine.
The Co. Cork classic was ranked in front of such notables as Cypress Point (#2), Pebble Beach (#5) and Pinnacle Point (#8) – thus giving testimony to the prophesy made by Joe Carr (3-times British Amateur Champion and Captain of the R & A) in the late 1980’s when he first laid eyes on this special place.
He told the owner brothers, John and Patrick O’Connor that the golf course had the potential to become the “Eighth Wonder of the golfing World”.
In July 1999, a very famous “six-ball” turned up to play on the new course that had the golf world talking.
The “six-ball” in question was made up of multiple Major winners – the late Payne Stewart, Tiger Woods, Mark O’Meara, Lee Jansen, Stewart Appleby and David Duval.
They enthused about the whole experience – the antiquity of the site, the stunning 360º vista of cliffs and ocean, the abundance of flora and fauna – and they predicted that one day that Old Head would become a golfing Mecca and a “must play” destination for all discerning golfers from around the world.
They were right…
