The K Club Golf and Spa Resort

About The K Club Golf and Spa Resort Holiday Apartment

In late 2006the Palmer Course at the K Club became Ireland's first Ryder Cup venueas it played host to Europe's record-equalling victory. It is a stadium-style resort courseand at over 7 300 yards from the tipsmany commentators have described it as the most difficult inland layout in the country.

Palmer has succeeded in manipulating the existing mature trees and water features to create a magnificent test for golfers of all standards. The coverage and attention that has been brought to both the K Club and Irish golf in general is richly deservedgiven the faultless display that the Palmer Course exhibited during the Ryder Cup matches.

The neighbouring Smurfit Course is an extravagant creationdivided from the Palmer Course by the River Liffywhich flows right through to Dublin. The layout can be characterised as an inland linkswith much earth having been moved to create dune-like mounds at the edge of the fairways.

The drama of the experience at the Smurfit comes primarily from the 14 acres of water that have been worked into the coursemaking it pretty important to stock up on golf balls before the first tee. The course has a more rugged feel than its sisterowing to the planting of gorse and bracken. The signature hole is the monster par-5 seventhwhich measures in at an astonishing 606 yardsand skirts a dramatic series of water cascades.