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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture Discussion Group => Topic started by: Tony_Muldoon on January 26, 2024, 06:09:00 AM

Title: New Links in Ireland? Curracloe nr Wexford.
Post by: Tony_Muldoon on January 26, 2024, 06:09:00 AM

https://irishgolfer.ie/latest-golf-news/2024/01/25/announcing-curracloe-links-irelands-next-great-golf-course/

Fry Straka are the architects. Projected opening 2026.

Bearing in mind the developers are a Hotel group who's other property is Druid's Glenn and that the Archtitects are well known to US Golfers,  I'm thinking this is another high end course.

I thought 'proper' links land was untouchable these days? It looks narrow in that video but appearances can be decieving.

Little real detail, anyone know more?

Title: Re: New Links in Ireland? Curracloe nr Wexford.
Post by: Tom_Doak on January 26, 2024, 06:45:44 AM

Quote from: Tony_Muldoon on January 26, 2024, 06:09:00 AM

I thought 'proper' links land was untouchable these days? It looks narrow in that video but appearances can be decieving.

Pretty much everything that's considered "dunes" was marked as off limits by the E.U.  It's very unlikely they got that reversed, so this site must not have been considered sensitive when the maps were drawn.

Title: Re: New Links in Ireland? Curracloe nr Wexford.
Post by: Dónal Ó Ceallaigh on January 26, 2024, 08:15:57 AM

If the course will be built around the hotel, it looks like it will a few hundred yards in from the links land:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ff9w7m2E7xZgJSmD6 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/ff9w7m2E7xZgJSmD6)

I had not heard of this project, but it seems to have been cooking for many years. Here's an article from last year:
New €12M Seaside Development in Curracloe (southeastradio.ie) (https://www.southeastradio.ie/new-e12m-seaside-development-in-curracloe/)


I think this link shows the boundary for the development which might include the course as well:
314174 | An Bord Pleanála (pleanala.ie) (https://www.pleanala.ie/en-ie/case/314174)

Title: Re: New Links in Ireland? Curracloe nr Wexford.
Post by: Adam Lawrence on January 26, 2024, 08:42:18 AM

Dana first told me about this last year. He and Jason (it is a Jason-led project) are both very excited about it. It's in sand, but not in the dunes themselves. A bit like Dumbarnie in that respect, I think.

Title: Re: New Links in Ireland? Curracloe nr Wexford.
Post by: Jeff Schley on January 26, 2024, 04:36:39 PM

Those are some prodigious dunes, 3 levels.

Title: Re: New Links in Ireland? Curracloe nr Wexford.
Post by: Ally Mcintosh on January 26, 2024, 05:03:07 PM

Not links land.


Nevertheless, a good site.

Title: Re: New Links in Ireland? Curracloe nr Wexford.
Post by: Ally Mcintosh on April 05, 2024, 01:49:42 AM

Article on a this new course on page 10-12. Layout included.


https://irishgolfer.ie/wp-content/uploads/digital/2024-3/index.html (https://irishgolfer.ie/wp-content/uploads/digital/2024-3/index.html)