Our Final Golf Game in Ireland

Today we played The Island Golf Club in Malahide Ireland . The club was established in. 1890 and up until 1973 the only way to get to the course was by boat .
We had an early tee time (8:10 am) and with the heavy cloud cover and low ambient lighting in the morning it was hard to see our shots for the first couple of holes.
The course once again was a traditional links course with large mounds of sand and fescue grasses .
The bays around Malahide have plenty of mussels and when we were playing holes 10-12 we saw a lot of mussel shells on the fairway and roughs. The birds scoop them up from the water and drop them from high above to break their shells and eat the mussel

We also saw a few pheasants on the course which I think we only saw once before .

Celeste played really well and she had the lowest lost ball count in our group. Over 9 rounds she only lost 1 ball. ( I lost 4 balls)

The course treated us very well and just before our first group teed off they raised the Canadian flag 🇨🇦 on their second flag pole.
I had contacted the course through our travel tour operator about exchanging flags . The 2 vice Captains from the Island Course were waiting for us at the end of the round and we had a Flag exchange between our Club Silver Springs and their club . After the flag exchange they treated Celeste and into drinks and lunch . Mary and Liam were very nice and it was pleasant to meet them and hear about the club and kids .

The Island Club maybe not as famous as some of the other courses but it is definitely a members course where members can play it again and again . Some holes are still very challenging, for example the 14 th hope has the narrowest fairway in all of Ireland. ( both Celeste and I hit our drives on the fairway )

After our game we came back to our not so nice hotel and started to pack for our flight home . The entire group met for drinks tonight and most of us stayed for dinner in the hotel restaurant.
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