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Ballybunion Golf Club
If you're one like the Ballybunion Golf Club and you desire to build another course that will be almost as good as this classic seaside course, you will need the beautiful land, and a great architect for the golf course. In fact, that's just what Robert Trent Jones Sr. did. He added the Cashen Course which are full of blind shots, well protected greens, and pinpoint areas for landing. It is said that caddies are more useful here than for the Old Course and it compares greatly to the Ballybunion Golf Club.
• The par-4, 5th hole is 303 yards and a good strategy is to usually get the ball close up to the elevated green that is steep, wide, shallow, has a hill guarding it in the back that is grown over in grass, bunkers, and the front has a very steep ledge. This approach is more than difficult.
• The 8th hole, par-5, is 605 yards and giving a good hit to the tee ball will go running down a steep hilled fairway an extra 100 yards.
• The 9th hole is 478 yards and runs downhill. This is easily reachable in 2 and even the mediocre golfer can reach it using a big driver and pitching wedge. Your most difficult part for this hole is the 3-tiered green and nothing can be as frustrating as a 4 putt bogey.
• Their 15th hole is probably the best par-5 out of the many 5 pars the course has. This is a blind tee shot that golfers are faced with and is 487 yards. One could hit a good 320 yarder and still be out of view of the green. It runs downhill and then runs back uphill to the large green.
• On the 15th hole, you're either going to love or hate it, not ever wanting to do it again. Why? Well, it's like one of those roller coaster rides that is unpredictable.
The added Cashen Course, compared similarly to Ballybunion Golf Club, will test every part of ones game. You'll have unlucky and lucky rolls or bounces, soaring dunes, blind shots, inspiring vistas, and narrow fairways. Although there will be times that you'll feel the narrow areas of landing are unfair, giving it a few tries or rounds will get you the hang of it. This is what one wants out of fine links golf.
This will truly be a course that will either be loved or hated. Some may find the tee shot through the wall of dunes to be irritating, as well as the blind approach for the humped-green. All in all, the Cashen Course is worthy to be compared to the Old Course at Ballybunion Golf Club.