Athenry Golf Club Co Galway

Athenry Golf Club located mid way between Athenry and Oranmore at the townland of Palmerstown. Athenry Golf Club is a mixture of parkland and heathland built on a limestone base against the backdrop of a large forest giving excellent drainage and remaining playable all year round.

This pleasant test of Golf on the outskirts of Galway City offers a challenge for golfers of all standards on a course which is uncrowded mid-week. Extended to 18 holes in 1991 under the guidance of renowned architect Eddie Hackett and further improvements in recent years by Eddie Connaughton have led to the Club hosting recent

Provincial and National championships. Modern clubhouse with a friendly atmosphere gives excellent views of much of the course and adjoining famous “Fields of Athenry”. Feature holes are 3 par 3’s in the adjoining wood with the signature 12th hole of 193 yards from an elevated tee amongst a corridor of beech and pine trees one of most challenging and scenic holes to be seen throughout Ireland