The Smurfit Course at The K Club described as probably the greatest inland Golf Course in Ireland. The philosophy in developing the course was to ensure that a comparison with the existing Palmer Ryder Course would be difficult and that the golfers experience would be completely different.
When this brief was given for the 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 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.
In essence the Course is entirely different from The Palmer Ryder Course located just across the River Liffey. 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.
The 7th Hole the most significant golf hole on The Palmer Smurfit Course is the Par 5 7th measuring some 606 yards. This hole will probably be regarded as the most dramatic in Europe. It has a series of water cascades and water features which are just some factors of this development.
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