Ballybunion, Ireland
"From the regular tees the Old Course measures 6,200 yards; from the forward markers, 5,320. Standing on the elevated 1st tee, we are struck by the formidable nature of the landscape: the colossal grass-covered sand hills that, 70-feet high, disclose only an occasional patch of playable turf. Instead of paralleling the shoreline, these dunes often run at right angles to it. The result is a variety of dogleg holes carved through the sharply contoured land, as well as a number of straightaway holes where sand hills right and left patrol access to the greens in sentinel style."

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