Links (golf) Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/links-golf Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:53:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg Links (golf) Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/links-golf 32 32 Tralee: Canny Punctuation to an Irish Golf Smorgasbord https://www.halphillips.net/tralee-canny-punctuation-to-an-irish-golf-smorgasbord?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tralee-canny-punctuation-to-an-irish-golf-smorgasbord https://www.halphillips.net/tralee-canny-punctuation-to-an-irish-golf-smorgasbord#respond Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:54:19 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=843     The odyssey is complete, our nine-courses-in-nine-days schedule has been dispatched, and it’s all over but the ibuprofen withdrawals. Eight links, one parkland track. Three venues in the very north, four in the west of Ireland, and three more in the southwest. I arrived with a bag full of balls and 24 new ones […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/tralee-canny-punctuation-to-an-irish-golf-smorgasbord/feed 0 How the Irish and Ireland inform their golf https://www.halphillips.net/762-2?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=762-2 https://www.halphillips.net/762-2#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:31:30 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=762 Sitting on a park bench this Sunday morning in the Diamond, the central square area of Donegal Town. The Road Warriors straggled back here, battered and bruised, late last night between rounds at Donegal Golf Club and Enniscrone. What we found upon checking into the splendid Abbey Hotel was a major league party underway, in […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/762-2/feed 1 Ballybunion, Enniscrone and Carne: Discuss https://www.halphillips.net/ballybunion-enniscrone-and-carne-discuss?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ballybunion-enniscrone-and-carne-discuss https://www.halphillips.net/ballybunion-enniscrone-and-carne-discuss#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:52:58 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=799     About 50 minutes outside of Bellmullet, bearing down on Ballina, headed east so that we might eventually tack south to Castlebar, Galway, Limerick and Killarney, it registered with me that we were playing Ballybunion the next day. So I was thinking, “How many links golf courses are rated higher than Ballybunion, I mean, […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/ballybunion-enniscrone-and-carne-discuss/feed 1 Old Links vs. New Links: Viva la difference https://www.halphillips.net/old-links-vs-new-links-viva-la-difference?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-links-vs-new-links-viva-la-difference https://www.halphillips.net/old-links-vs-new-links-viva-la-difference#respond Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:33:39 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=747     The assumption is that all the links courses here in northwest Ireland are “ancient”, but that’s not the case. Donegal Golf Club, also known as Murvagh, was built in the 1970s, though you’d never guess it. We’ve played two even newer links on this trip, the Sandy Hill track at Rosapenna, and the […]

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