More Barnbougle Pics

[Matthew Mollica]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

A regular poster on the Australasian website www. iseekgolf.com has posted some recent pictures of Barnbougle Dunes. The site was posted here on Feb 4, but it has had to be deleted due to traffic overload on the poor chap's server!

From what I can gather, the photography has been done by a prominent Australian golf course photographer, David Scarletti.

If you were too slow to see the photo's, take it from me, you missed something special. If you are reading this thread for the first time, take some pity on poor JakaB. Envy is such an ugly emotion.  

Again, let me take this opportunity to remind you all that Australia is but a short flight away, and that the pound, and the US dollar are both stronger than our currency. Not that you'll need too much encouragement after seeing the photo's  

Matthew

[bakerg]

In a word: Wow!

[Matthew Delahunty]

truly mouthwatering!

[JakaB]

I think you are going to have to do better to get people to skip the classics in Europe and the USA.  Looks good for the locals.

[Jimmy Muratt]

It truly looks like Ireland.  What an ideal linksland site for a golf course....

Tom,
Does the Barnbougle site share many similarities to the proposed site for your new course in Ireland?  From just seeing a few pics of the land in Castlegregory, the land there looks spectacular as well.

[Mike_Sweeney]

I think you are going to have to do better to get people to skip the classics in Europe and the USA.  Looks good for the locals.

JakaBarney,

Those pictures do look like they were taken right out of Larry Lambrecht's Ireland book, but a January Down Under is probably alot nicer than a January in Fife !!

[Darius Oliver]

JakaB may be hard to please but he is right about Barnbougle being a great place to play for the locals. They will obviously welcome international visitors with open arms but its long term viability rests with mainland Aussie golfers making the trip regularly.

Overseas visitors who think we need to do better to attract the international golfer are forgetting that we already boast possibly the grandest classic of them all.

Skipping the US classics to play Barnbougle alone would be madness - but Barnbougle, an hour's flight, then the Sandbelt and Mornington Peninsula is arguably the.............(pause for thought)...um..........(contemplate possible crowd increases)...........ah your right it's probably good for us locals - enjoy what you guys have over there, I'm going to Royal Melbourne to watch some golf!

[spooky]

I think you are going to have to do better to get people to skip the classics in Europe and the USA.  Looks good for the locals.

  I heard that the person who took the pics said it's the best course he has seen, (and he has seen pretty much all of the worlds classics)  It's obviously a big ask to fly half way around the world to play one course, but they don't come much better than Barnbougle..

[A_Clay_Man]

Shiv- U gots a good eye. I think it's #7. What a bunker!

Good on ya Greg Ramsey et al. I have an appreciation for how great it appears to have turned out, just as anticipated from those first posts, about the project.

I also feel better for having met George Pazin.

[peter_p]

Based on these pictures, I think we should get a show of hands at KPIII and Baltusrol to see if a official GCA tour is possible for AU/NZ, say a 7-10 day tour, which can be extended on either end as each sees fit.

Tacoma/schmacoma.

[Jim Sweeney]

"Is this heaven?" asked the man.

"No," replied his son, "it's Barnbougle."

Build 'em like this, and they will come.

[Richard Chamberlain]

A bait in the water for tonyt...

...Tony, do you think it will be windy down there ?

[spooky]

That side of the island is not too windy.  The west coast has more wind.  I have been down there a couple of times for maybe 6 days and had one windy day...

[Brock Peyer]

Incredible, just incredible.  

I love that first picture and the second to last one.  I would like to put those up in my house.

Tom, I want to suggest that either your people or the developer put together a video tour, a really long complete video tour of this place, I gotta see more of it.  

My wife has been to New Zealand, I think that she needs to take me, but she really doesn't let me out much, oh well.

[spooky]

the fellow from iseekgolf had to take the pics down because of too much traffic to his site.  

A professional video tour would be great.  I took a couple of hours of video down there a couple of months ago and sit back and watch it every few days.  It will be the sort of course that once you play it you will not be able to get it out of your thoughts.  It is soooooooooo special....