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hether you’re looking to hold a corporate If ever a golf course reflected the personality of its
Wgolf day to impress your clientele or search- architect it is surely the Ryder Cup Course. It may
ing for the ideal venue for your next society golf seem odd to describe a golf course as charismatic
day, there are few venues to match the quality and and cavalier but from the instant you arrive at the
service of The K Club at Straffan, Co Kildare. Lo- first tee you are enveloped by a unique atmosphere.
cated on the banks of the River Liffey, The K Club, You drive from an elevated tee at the 1st. Towering
just 30 minutes from Dublin, features two Arnold pines extend for quite a way down the right side
Palmer designed Championship Courses, which and with a lake to the left - the same one that later
have played host to the 2006 Ryder Cup, the 2016 fashions the thrilling approach to the final green.
Irish Open and 13 European Opens.
This enchanting course also hosted the Europe-
The Arnold Palmer-designed Ryder Cup Course is, an Open a record 11 times which testifies to the
quite simply one of the world’s most spectacular importance of The Ryder Cup Course to European
golf courses, challenging and dramatic, the layout golf. European Open champions during that time
and design takes your breath away. It will charm, included Darren Clarke, Colin Montgomerie, Lee
entice and challenge you and will inevitably bring Westwood and the legendary Bernhard Langer back
out the very best in your game. This is your oppor- in 1995. In 2016 the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open was
tunity to play a championship course and pit your also held on this course during which we saw Rory
wits against Arnold Palmer, just as Europe’s Ryder McIlroy’s European Tour Shot of the Year.
Cup heroes did in 2006. Ranked regularly in the top 3 parkland golf courses