Cork Golf Club is located at Little Island close to Cork City. This championship golf course is routed through exceptional golfing terrain incorporating old limestone quarries and the inner reaches of Cork Harbour.
Cork Golf Club is a championship Irish course, as graceful and mature as its age would suggest.
Scenically situated in Cork Harbour, the Club has hosted many major amateur and professional Championships over the years including the Irish Open. Built on free-draining limestone, the course presents a crisp heath-like playing surface similar to links. Cork Golf Club has many unusual features, not least holes 6-10 which are set in a disused limestone quarry. The scenery and variety are an added bonus and they all combine to make Cork Golf Club a true golfing challenge.
The course was redesigned in 1927 by the world famous golf architect Dr Alexander (Alister) Mackenzie, whose work includes such famous courses as Augusta National, Cypress Point and Royal Melbourne. Lough Mahon, on the estuary of the River Lee, forms a pleasant background for much of the course.
Built on free-draining limestone, the course presents a crisp heath-like playing surface akin to links. The course is particularly renowned for its many long carries from the tees and its superbly manicured greens.
