• Contact

  
  Telephone: 01 6017298
  Fax: 01 6017298
  E-mail: resortsales@kclub.ie
  Homepage: http://www.kclub.com

• Facts and distance 

  Facilities: Driving Range, Golfshop, Practice Area, Rental Clubs, Restaurant, Trolley
  Type of golf course: Seaside
  
  Course length:  7277 yd
  Course designer:  Palmer Course Design Company
  No. of holes:  18
  Par:  72
  Difficulty:  Mid
  
  

The Smurfit Course

The philosophy in developing the Smurfit course was to ensure that a comparison with the existing Palmer Ryder Cup Course would be difficult and that the golfers experience would be completely different. When this brief was given to Palmer Course Design Company, they came up with a concept, which was radical with regards to golf course developments throughout the World.

An Inland Golf Links
The best way to describe The Palmer Smurfit Course at The K Club is that of an inland links. However, its true attributes do not stop there. The Course has many dramatic landscapes with dune type mounding throughout. This assists in making the Course into a true Championship Golf Course with many vantage points for spectators to view the Golf Professional at work.
In essence the Course is entirely different from The Palmer Ryder Cup Course located just across the River Liffey. From feedback to date golfers state that it is almost impossible to make a comparison such is the difference in experience.

Even with regard to the landscaping there is a significant difference, whereby on The Palmer Ryder Cup Course there are specifically planted areas using cultivated plants presented in a formal fashion are the norm. On The Palmer Smurfit Course wild species of plants have been used such as gorse, bracken etc. and have been planted in a highly random fashion, more or less as nature would have intended.

Also four islands have been created within the lakes to promote the establishment of waterfowl.
Special Golf Holes to play:
* 3rd (Kingfisher Realm)
* 4th (Heron Pond)
* 7th (Swallow Quarry)
* 16th (Little Grebe Dive)
* 17th (Otter's Holt)
* 18th (Swan Island)

This golf course is incl in the following golf packages:
The K Club