Carton House Golf Club Ireland

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Carton House Golf Club

Montgomerie and O’Meara Golf Courses

Location:- County Kildare

Tucked in the storybook setting of Carton House Golf Hotel are two of Ireland’s most acclaimed golf courses, home to the 2004 and 2005 AIB Irish Amateur Open Championship and the 2005 and 2006 Nissan Irish Open.

Carton House is located in an area that is rich in the quality of golf that is offered, yet it still provides a challenge that is worthy of any of its illustrious neighbours. It offers a golfing resort containing two testing championship courses, one designed by Mark O'Meara and the other by Colin Montgomerie. The O'Meara course offers a traditional parkland challenge while the Montgomerie is more difficult, because of fearsome bunkering and exposure to the wind.

The award winning Montgomerie course presents the golfer with a very different challenge of head high pot bunkers, fast running greens and narrow fairways weaving through fields of native fescue grasses. The O’Meara parkland course tests its players by utilising the rolling land of the estate and the majestic waters of the River Rye. Very different in nature, both courses abound with a style and class consistent with the Carton estate.

The Montgomerie Golf Course

Length – 7300 Yards, Par 72

Just as The O’Meara reflects personality, so too do the 18 holes designed by Colin Montgomerie in association with Stan Eby of European Golf Design, which opened in June 2003 to critical acclaim.

Colin Montgomerie expressed his delight with the Montgomerie course - “This is a unique project and I am privileged to be associated with it. You can’t call it a links course, but it plays like a links and has all the characteristics of a links. In designing this course, I attempted to go back to a more traditional course”. “I looked at the great courses around the world – Royal Melbourne, Troon, and Turnberry – and worked out what is so good about them. One thing that springs to mind – bunkering. They are hazards and they work with the prevailing wind. Few holes are straight up and down the wind but tend to be across, which brings the bunkering into play. This is the kind of course where the best players would always come out on top”.
Cut through rolling meadows and punctuated by native fescue, The Montgomerie blends a storybook setting with the exciting qualities of links golf. Here, the fairways run firm and fast. The intelligent bunker complexes demand strategic and shot making excellence and the ground game is always in play.

The Montgomerie has everything that that helps to make golf so fascinating. At full stretch – 7,300 yards - this links style creation is championship stuff.

Winner of "Best New Design of the Year 2004" Award - Golf World, January 2005
Ranked 10th in Ireland by Golf Digest magazine - April 2005
Home to the 2005 & 2006 Nissan Irish Open
Home to the 2004 AIB Irish Amateur Open Championship

The O’Meara Golf Course

Length – 7006 Yards, Par 72

The transformation of the estate into a first class golf resort began in 1999. In 2002, the first phase of the development saw the opening of The O’Meara course.

Undoubtedly a parkland, unlike its sister course on the south side of the River Rye, The O’Meara explores the swooping pastures and tiptoes around the ancient specimen trees on this magnificent estate.

Feature holes on Carton Houses– O’Meara Course include the 14th, 15th and 16th – a pair of 3’s wrapped around a heroic par 5 – crossing the lazy loops of the River Rye. The beauty of these holes leaves you breathless with their daring yet graceful nature. The opportunity to gamble is paramount as is the sense of tranquillity that the holes create.

This genteel but challenging journey complements the more vigorous test on the lower ground over the water on The Montgomerie course. Together they are a potent force – very different in nature but both abounding with class which is the overriding feel of the whole estate.

“It’s a great piece of property, and I wanted my course to be tough and challenging but playable. I’m thrilled with it.”
Mark O’Meara

The O'Meara....home to the 2005 AIB Amateur Open Championship

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