Speciality Ireland
Speciality Ireland offers a virtual smorgasbord of tours, some specific to golf and others that are a mixture of golf, whiskey and Irish delicacies. If that doesn't sound like a good week lived in infamy, what does? The golf tours include a golf-saturated tour of the courses in Southwest Ireland including Ballybunion, Old Head, Waterville, Tralee, Lahinch and Doonbeg. You can also tour the West Ireland courses or the Northern Royals with courses such as Royal Portrush, Royal County Down, Portstewart, Castlerock and Ardglass. They also offer a tour that mixes golf with a little whiskey, the tour alternating between Royal Portrush, Portmarnock Links, Portmarnock Old Course and Portstewart, with a visit to the Bushmills Distillery in between.
Speciality Ireland
Gurtnafleur Business Park
Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland
353 52 617 0630
specialityireland.com
Ireland Golf
Ireland Golf has been organizing tours and taking golfers on the vacation of their lives since 1992. They pride themselves on their number of return and referral customers. They offer tours of courses in the north, west, southwest and east. Golfers that go with Golf Ireland have the option of playing such courses as Adare Manor, Ballybunion Old Course, Tralee, Royal County Down, Doonbeg, Lahinch, The K Club, Old Head of Kinsale, Mount Juliet, Portmarnock and Enniscrone. One of the nice things about going on a tour of the links with Ireland Golf is that you can choose from a preset tour or customize your own with the help of their experts.
Ireland Golf Travel Ltd.
Clogherbrien, Tralee Co.
Kerry, Ireland
353 66 7181708
irelandgolf.com
Tailor-Made Golf Tours
Tailor-Made Golf Tours has taken a page from the old marketing handbook by latching onto the name of one of the top golf club manufacturers in the business. Like most Ireland golf tour companies, Tailor-Made Golf Tours offers tours of the north, the west, the east and the southwest, but they also have the expert knowledge and connections to put you on some of the hidden gems that are away from the coastal cliffs. The scenery is quite a bit different with rolling inland hills and courses like Esker Hills, Glasson, Tullamore and Mullingar leading the old guard, and with newcomers The Heritage, Carton House and Headfort rounding out the tour.
Tailor-Made Golf Tours
23 The Willows
Oakleigh Wood, Ennis, Co.
Clare, Ireland
353 65 682 1593
tailormadegolftours.com
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