| Title: | Welcome to the Golf Notes Conference! |
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| Created: | Tue Feb 15 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Played Castlegregory on county Kerry last Saturday. The course is
controversial as conservationists complained when it was built that it
would disturb the breeding of Natterjack toads :-)
Well they built a big water hazard in front of the 9th hole and
natterjack toads have started breeding in it, so the conservationists
were wrong. It was full of water, so there was no good my going in
there with my white shoes again :-)
In fact the golf course is good for conservation as it preseves the
dunes from the criminal bulldozing of the sand dunes by irresponsible
farmers going on further down the beech.
This note is really only an excuse to tell you how I got on with the
toads. I hit a 5-iron to two feet from the pin :-)
..Kevin..
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| 2125.1 | STOWOA::tavo.ogo.dec.com::Diaz | Octavio | Thu Apr 03 1997 17:07 | 8 | |
Kevin, Sounds like a nice place ;-). And a nice shot! Probably the toads are not as bothersome as the canadian geese we have in most courses in New England. Where is county Kerry in Ireland? Care for a longer description of Castlegregory? | |||||
| 2125.2 | Honolulu found by a Kerryman :-) | 41027::MANNERINGS | Tue Apr 08 1997 16:26 | 8 | |
Will get back to you with more details, but Kerry is in the far south
west of Ireland and Castlegregory is on the Bearna Peninsula, just
along from where Saint Brendan sailed to America some 1500 years ago.
The course is on a Sand spit between a freshwater lake and the
Atlantic. The course is new, 9-hole and quite tight, but not too long.
..Kevin..
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| 2125.3 | url for Castlegregory | MKTCRV::MANNERINGS | Thu Apr 10 1997 10:45 | 8 | |
Have a look at
http://ppc.rtc-tralee.ie/Castlegregory/overview.html#moretodo
to get the full story of this beutiful place. BTW it is called the
Dingle peninsula, I was getting mixed up.
..Kevin..
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