Adare Golf Club, Limerick

Advantages: Good food, high quality service
Disadvantages: Adare, although picturesque, is a bit 'touristy'

...Adare is a picture postcard village 6 or 7 miles South of Limerick, picturesque thatched cottages mostly now antique shops and high quality restaurant. The Dunraven Arms is right in the heart of the village. A rambling 2 storey hotel with and 'olde worlde' pub and Egon Ronay approved restaurant at its centre. Facilities are good with a superbly kitted out health centre and some high quality shops within the hotel. The hotel caters for small business conferences and events with a very reasonable day delegate rate. Accommodation is excellent, our room had a 4 poster bed and acres of space (nice old/substantial furniture). The shower was stunning (almost literally) and the bathroom was bigger than some hotel rooms I've stayed in. In the morning a huge Irish breakfast set us up for the day. The hotel is close to the golf course. I... Read review

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...out for a golf links right from the very start of time. So it was that on the 15th April, 1893, (Good Friday) the very first round of golf was played here at Lahinch, between Lieutenant McFarlane of the Black Watch Regiment and William E. McDonnell, a local ‘merchant prince’ from Limerick. They were accompanied by many of the gentry of the area and their ladies, and the officers from the Black Watch regiment, who took over the local hotel, Sharry’s, to provide food and sustenance for the assembled company. It was the first time that many of the locals had seen such riches and refinery, and one of the locals was famously heard to remark, "Glory be to God and I hear they are going to eat meat on this blessed day. What's the world coming to at all!" Be that as it may, golf had well and truly arrived in Lahinch, and it is now... Read review

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...I was fortunate enough recently to stay in Villamora, a town on the Portuguese Algarve. This is a very modern town boasting a beautiful marina as well as good food accommodation and of course golf. I stayed at the Villa Sol country club, which boasts it's own championship golf course, golf pro, driving range, swimming pools, tennis courts and private beach area. This resort is about five minutes drive from the town and has five championship golf courses within a fifteen minute drive. It is only about a twenty minute drive from the airport at Faro, and fifteen minutes from the nightlife of Albuferia.... Read review

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