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Slieve Russell Golf Club in Ireland

The Slieve Russell course was built to the very highest standards, while the rolling parkland layout is notable for the strategic use of water hazards and the undulating nature of the manicured sand based greens. Slieve Russell is fast gaining an excellent worldwide reputation and Christy O'Connor Sr., who has been lavish in his praise of the facility, recently commented: "I would pay no better tribute to the course at the Slieve Russell than to say the more often I play it, the more it reminds me of Gleneagles". Forming a generous portion of the 300 acre estate, the unique style of the course at Slieve Russell is sensitively wrapped around the lakes and drumlins of the beautiful County Cavan landscape, while the facility also comprises a putting green, practice area and nine hole par 3 golf course.

Superb holes abound at the Slieve Russell and however impressed you are with the outward journey; the experience will be surpassed on the closing nine. One of the most memorable holes on the front include the long par four 2nd, which with water playing an important role, requires great accuracy off the tee. Your approach to a sloping and well protected green must be made over a channel, which runs across the fairway. The winding par five 9th, which with bunkers left and right of the fairway is another fantastic hole, requiring an approach to an elusive two tiered green. The best of homeward journey include the long doglegging par five 13th, with water along the left side all the way to the green, which is wickedly sloped and almost entirely surrounded by water; and the short 16th, which must be played over a pond to a green surrounded by bunkers to the rear.


NEARBY COURSES:
Birr (2 hrs, 40 min); Bundoran (1 hr, 35 min); Enniscrone (2 hrs, 25 min); Esker Hills (2 hrs, 10 min); Glasson (1 hr, 45 min); Island (2 hrs, 25 min); Malone (2 hrs, 15 min); Mullingar (1 hr, 40 min); Royal County Down (2 hrs, 20 min)


RECOMMENDED NEARBY ACCOMMODATION:
Bloomfield House Hotel (1 hr, 40 min); Coopershill House (1 hr, 45 min); Crookedwood House (1 hr, 25 min); Slieve Russell Hotel (on site)


LOCATION:
Situated approximately one mile from Ballyconnell and five miles from Belturbet. From Dublin, follow the N3 through Navan, Cavan and Belturbet, from where you follow the signs to Ballyconnell and the Slieve Russell.