I have been involved with a Golf Society now for approximately 15 years and it has been a wonderful institution to be involved in.

We have been to many places in the UK & Ireland and then ventured to Spain in about 2012 on the back of conjuring up the 195 year tour! Some of the lads struggled to get a pass out from the Mrs so the once in a lifetime (though a trip abroad has happened every year since) was devised so that it would have been rude not to be allowed to go. The 195 years comprised of two of the guys being 40 that year, one being 50 and one being 65. It just had to be done.

The best trip though was back in 2007 where I organised a trip for the guys to The K Club in Ireland a few months after The Ryder Cup was held there. This was pre Dream Golf Holidays so organising golf was just for this group.

12 of us (the size of the society usually hovers around 25/30) set off the The K Club.

The trip was Wednesday to Friday, early April, the Friday being Good Friday.

On the Wednesday we played a local course, Cookridge GC before boarding the plane to Dublin. Arriving around 23:00 most of us were ready for bed, a few went to see the highlights of Dublins Fair City.

The next day we trotted off to The K Club and what a treat was in store. We were blessed with the most glorious sunny weather, 70 degs + and that really highlighted the beauty and grandeur of the hotel.

We arrived, got off the coach and from that time to getting to the airport on the Friday we never lifted a bag, be it clothes or golf bag. We were treated so so well.

The hospitality, the warmth of the people, the highest of high standards across every part of the complex. We just didn’t want to leave.

Both courses, the Smurfitt, now called the Palmer South and the Palmer, now called Palmer North were in great condition and a real joy to play the Palmer only a few months after the Ryder Cup and holes in one from Paul Casey, a real privilege. In fact in the guest book in the hotel you only had to go back a few pages to see all the thank you’s from the players, how good was that!

And then to cap it all, as said it was Easter and we are in Ireland on Good Friday, what happens in Ireland on Good Friday, the pubs shut. Now one or two of these boys like a drink and I have brought them to a dry place! So what did we have to do……. go back to the airport early to get their fill, each to their own but it was one of those moments to go down in the history of the Society.

The K Club is still a great place to go and visit. All the history is there and you are playing a Ryder Cup course, that is always a special thing to do.

Trips to Ireland are always very special.

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