One of the best aspects of Irish golf is every single caddy I’ve had in the country, save for 1, was also a member. Fantastic.
Not sure if Scotland is the same.
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100%. In the cities there is usually a buy-in and maybe a waiting list which can get to mad figures like 2.5K a year after anything from 10-25K Buy-in.
My home course, albeit a mediocre parkland is ~600 for men & ~520ish for Ladies but for 18-25 (yours truly) its only 175 for the year. Most clubs wont go over 1K though.
Bonus fact: a lot of the clubs here let you add your children to your membership for an extra 10/20 euro until they turn 18 which is fantastic
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Took caddies at Royal Dornoch and TOC, obviously TOC doesn’t really compare, but the guy at RD was (as was the other caddie in my threesome). My assumption is that outside of the high end privates and those geared at tourists (Castle Stuart and Kingsbarns), any caddies are going to be locals who are almost assuredly members.
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My caddie at Dornoch was a member at Brora, not Dornoch. But I think it was mostly just because it was closer to his home.
for the love of Christ can we get ED banned forever @McSchvantz? He does nothing but stir the soup, insult, post endless attacks…cross so many lines over and over, and fill the refuge with posts people either feel the need to report or probably should.
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It’s nice and quiet in here today let’s keep it that way with no mention of him.
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This whole season is making me need to plan a trip to Ireland. I have no experience over there, but have scoured Google Maps for many an hour. Thinking of two possible routings, and want to source any advice from people who have been (@jhkaplan, @Clarkebar, literally dozens of others) for which seems more doable. Sorry to hijack thread, bigger sorry if this has been done elsewhere, hopefully someone else is helped by this as well.
Option 1
Land Shannon 6 am, drive to Waterville+ play. Then go up the coast from there + hit dooks/tralee (day 2), ballybunion, lahinch/doolin, carne, enniscrone, then back to shannon
Option 2
Land Shannon 6 am, drive to doolin/lahinch. Then up to carne, enniscrone, back down all the way to waterville, and go up from there through dooks, tralee, ballybunion, back to shannon
Neither of those may be the most efficient so please feel free to roast. Also, there’s like no way I’ll actually do this unless I stumble onto an exploded Brinks truck but hey, a guy can dream
Both sound awesome.
There is a thread about planning Ireland Trips…but so what!!!
That’s quite the trip. Down Waterville and Up through Carne/Enniscrone area are quite spread out. This is a big trip. An awesome trip.
I knew there was a thread but I got too excited. Premature thread hijackulation 
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ok im in. someone on here happens to know an owner of Waterville
and @Booch will meet us wherever
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I think @anon26814599 is carpet bombing the board to find a 2020 Ireland group. Here I thought that I was special with his DM yesterday…
Do we know why us courses have such different pricing? Is it maintenance costs? Land ownership costs?
Could someone in the US make sweetness cove and have a $2k membership and make it at least break even?
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we are actively building a group and you are in it. @Booch is our boots on the ground man
All about the timing my man. I will see over Thanksgiving about the ownership in at Waterville. I believe the guy spends about 3-4 months in the summer over there and then he’s near Jupiter, FL the rest of the year.
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Have car, will travel. In all seriousness happy to help anyways I can. Can only imagine what it’s like planning something 5000+ miles away so if you need some local advice lemme know!
My best attempt at answering this.
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As much as I’ve been to Ireland, my golf experience is limited unfortunately. But if you need recommendations about where to visit, drink, stay, fish, etc. - I am happy to help!
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in a state of panic writing this given previous events, but something about Carne didnt do it for me.
This was overall one of my favorite episodes of tourist sauce ever and it was possibly the best produced thing NLU has put out. Got chills multiple times and the footage of the 10th hole was god like. The story behind Carne and how it was told was incredible hence why i thought the episode was great.
But the course itself, just didnt give me the “omg” & “time to look at flights to ireland” feeling that others did. The wedding crashers clip below sums my current feeling up
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