Tralee Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/tralee Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:33:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg Tralee Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/tralee 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 Making room for new memories of Ireland https://www.halphillips.net/making-room-for-new-memories-of-ireland?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-room-for-new-memories-of-ireland https://www.halphillips.net/making-room-for-new-memories-of-ireland#respond Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:02:49 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=706 The last time I visited Ireland, my brother and I chaperoned the old man around the Southwest, taking in the links at Doonbeg, Lahinch, Tralee and Ballybunion. That was nearly three years ago and our timing couldn’t have been better. I don’t want to go all Jim Dodson on you, but my dad has since […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/making-room-for-new-memories-of-ireland/feed 0 New Links, New Rough, New Sleeve: Doonbeg Could Use Some Old-Time Greenkeeping https://www.halphillips.net/new-links-new-rough-new-sleeve-doonbeg-could-use-some-old-time-greenkeeping?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-links-new-rough-new-sleeve-doonbeg-could-use-some-old-time-greenkeeping https://www.halphillips.net/new-links-new-rough-new-sleeve-doonbeg-could-use-some-old-time-greenkeeping#respond Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:49:23 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=417 It’s been a couple years since I played Doonbeg Golf Club, Greg Norman’s “new” Irish links in the southwest of the country. I’ve thought about it quite a bit since because, well, a lot folks have played it too — it’s just south of Lahinch and just across the Shannon River from Ballybunion and Tralee […]

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