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Best Restaurants Near Ireland’s Top Golf Courses Ireland’s restaurant reputation has lagged its dining reality by at least a decade. Visiting golfers who think of Irish food as boiled potatoes and an indifferent pub carvery have been on the wrong side of the catch-up curve. The country now holds a meaningful Michelin presence, the seafood…
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Irish Whiskey Distillery Tours for Golfers: Combine Golf and Whiskey Two of Ireland’s great revivals have happened in parallel over the last fifteen years. The first is the rebirth of Irish whiskey, with more than forty distilleries now operating where there were only four in 2010. The second is the steady international rediscovery of Irish…
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Best 19th Hole Pubs in Ireland: Where Golfers Drink After the Round The round isn’t over when you sink your final putt on the 18th green. In Ireland, the round ends at the right pub—a low-ceilinged room with smoke-darkened beams, a perfectly settled pint of Guinness on the bar, and a fiddle player tuning up…
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Beyond the Course: Food, Pubs & Experiences on an Ireland Golf Trip Ask any golfer who has returned from Ireland what they remember most, and the answer rarely starts with a scorecard. Yes, they will mention the dunes at Ballybunion or the par-3 across the chasm at Old Head. They will recall the morning fog…
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Phone, WiFi & Staying Connected on an Ireland Golf Trip Modern Ireland golf trips run on bandwidth as much as on golf balls. You’ll want GPS guidance to a remote links course tucked behind a winding boreen, real-time weather updates as an Atlantic squall sweeps across Donegal, group chat coordination with foursome partners, scorecard apps…
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Currency, Payments & Money Tips for Golfers in Ireland Plan an Ireland golf trip and you discover quickly that “Ireland” is actually two monetary jurisdictions sharing one island. The Republic of Ireland uses the Euro (€). Northern Ireland, as part of the United Kingdom, uses the Pound Sterling (£). The moment your itinerary includes Royal…
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Understanding Irish Golf Etiquette and Dress Codes Irish golf clubs have a reputation that doesn’t quite match reality. Visitors arrive expecting stuffy gatekeepers, archaic rules, and a frosty welcome at the pro shop. What they actually find is something quite different: clubs that are warmer, friendlier, and more relaxed than almost anywhere else in the…
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Travelling Between Golf Courses in Ireland: Distances, Routes & Transport Here is the single most important fact for anyone planning an Irish golf trip: drive times in Ireland are routinely 25–40% longer than Google Maps estimates suggest, and on rural R-roads and L-roads the gap can stretch even wider. Tractors, narrow lanes, sheep crossings, sudden…
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Tipping Etiquette in Ireland for Golfers: Caddies, Hotels & Restaurants Few aspects of an Irish golf trip generate more quiet anxiety among visiting Americans than tipping. You arrive at Royal County Down or Lahinch carrying instincts shaped by a US service economy that expects 18 to 25 percent on every restaurant bill, dollar bills for…
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Ireland Weather for Golfers: What to Expect and How to Prepare Let’s get the obvious truth out of the way first: it will rain on your Ireland golf trip. Probably more than once. Possibly during your tee time at Ballybunion. Almost certainly while you’re standing on an exposed dune at Lahinch wondering whether your waterproofs…