Regular readers of this blog will have discerned that I use this recurring tag to cover places to which I've been and loved, as well as an early warning system for the sainted Theresa to warn her of places to which she's sure to be dragged in the near future. This is an example of the latter....
David Owen is a Golf Digest writer and proprietor of a blog titled My Usual Game, which is one of my regular golf reads. David's usual beat is his, ummmmmm, regular golf game at his local club in Connecticut. It's fun stuff, with the highlight for me being the unusual playoff formats when their four-ball matches end up all square. I should also fess up to the fact that my "real name" gag was stolen from David, who uses it with a friend allegedly named Hacker.
In making my usual rounds this morning I was delighted to see David post a reader's trip report to Cruit Island Golf Club, a reputedly delightful nine-holer tucked away in northwestern County Donegal. Cruit, pronounced Critch by David's reader but Crutch by this rave review, is considered by many to be the best nine-hole golf course in the world. Read both pieces in their entirety and if you're not charmed by its remote location, breathtaking vistas and overwhelming linksy goodness, what in God's name are you doing reading this blog? Unfortunately the golf club's website seems to be a work in progress, so I've no pictures to share in this post.
My interest is that Cruit is located reasonably near (as David makes clear in his post, on Irish roads near is a highly relative concept) other links gems such as Donegal Golf Club and the delightfully-named Narin & Portnoo Golf Club, which will form a wonderful cluster for a 2-3 day side trip during our forthcoming Season in Ballyliffin™.
One more quick note about David's website. He has a banner photograph that's immediately recognizable to those of us that love links golf. Compare it to this photo from our 2008 trip to Northern Ireland:
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| Great Photographers Think Alike, eh? |
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