The K Club's Ryder Cup course tops Ireland's Top 50 Parkland list for 2014
The Palmer Course at The K Club.
The Palmer Course at The K Club. Just three courses from Northern Ireland made Golfing Weekly’s list of Ireland’s Top 50 Parkland Courses for 2014.
It’s not a figure that will sit well with fans of Belvoir Park or Shandon Park but no-one can accuse the magazine of bias after 4,165 golfers cast 96,125 online votes.
As Golfing Weekly points out: “… fingers cannot be pointed at a small coterie of experts, whether they be professional golfers, writers, top amateurs, golf course designers or tourism boffins. Nor can there be accusations that there was a concerted internet campaign to skew the results one way or another through mass voting.”
The list is, according to Golfing Weekly, “the compilation of opinions from ordinary golfers around Ireland…We only allowed one vote per IP address and of the 96,125 ranking votes cast, 98.7% of the 4,165 readers played every course they ranked.”
Whatever about the order, few will disagree that the Palmer Course at the K Club, Mount Juliet, Adare Manor, Druids Glen or Lough Erne should be ranked near the top of any parkland list.
With the venue for the 2014 Irish Open yet to be announced, it’s interesting to see the O’Meara Course ranked ninth, seven spots ahead of the Montgomerie.
Ireland’s Top 50 Parkland Courses 2014
- The K Club (Palmer Course)
- Mount Juliet
- Adare Manor
- Druids Glen
- Lough Erne
- Killeen Castle
- The Heritage
- Killarney Golf & Fishing Club (Killeen Course)
- Carton House (O’Meara)
- Slieve Russell
- Cork Golf Club
- Dun Laoghaire Golf Club
- Carlow Golf Club
- Headfort (New Course)
- The K Club (Smurfit Course)
- Carton House (Montgomerie Course)
- Concra Wood
- Hermitage Golf Club
- Palmerstown Stud Golf Club
- Fota Island
- Galgorm Castle
- Castle Golf Club
- Powerscourt Golf Club (West Course)
- Mount Wolseley
- Woodenbridge Golf Club
- Luttrellstown Castle Golf Club
- Bunclody Golf Club
- Naas Golf Club
- Malone Golf Club
- Dromoland Castle Golf Club
- Tullamore Golf Club
- Mullingar Golf Club
- Woodbrook Golf Club
- Knightsbrook Golf Club
- Esker Hills Golf Club
- Grange Golf Club
- Tulfarris Golf Club
- Glasson Golf Club
- Portumna Golf Club
- Castlemartyr Golf Club
- Rathsallagh Golf Club
- Westport Golf Club
- New Forest Golf Club
- Dunmurry Springs Golf Club
- Ballinrobe Golf Club
- Bantry Bay Golf Club
- Faithlegg Golf Club
- Castleknock Golf Club
- Beech Park Golf Club
- Glen Of The Downs Golf Club
You can view the full article, which explains the stats and how we used the ranking scale equation to collate the final list http://digital.golfingweekly.ie/i/220185/64