Adare Manor masterpiece to deliver epic playground for Ryder Cup stars

Second staging of showpiece a sign of how far we’ve come, writes Dermot Gilleece

independent.ie | 28 July 2019 2:30 AM | Dermot Gilleece

Premiere Irish Golf Resort in Adare, County Limerick, Ireland

When set against the challenge of landing Tiger Woods for three pro- am events, each 8ve years apart, securing the Ryder Cup seemed a modest objective. Which is probably why it is no surprise that the 2026 biennial showpiece is going to Adare Manor.

Ireland’s second staging of the event is down to the enterprise of JP McManus, who invested in the venue specially with this grand prize in mind. And he is set to deliver the elite players from Europe and the US a very special playground.

“It will be the best conditioned golf course in my experience of this event,” said John Clarkin, managing director of the Irish company, Turfgrass, who are retained as Adare’s agronomists. “All the infrastructure for a successful staging is already in place.” Continue reading →

July 29, 2019 /  

Turfgrass are delighted that Ireland’s Adare Manor has been awarded the 2026 Ryder Cup

We were enlisted as the agronomy, course specifications and construction management experts on this remodel and rebuild of the Golf Course back in 2015 and have been working closely ever since with the Adare Manor team on all aspects of the design and build to deliver a masterpiece golf course worthy of such an illustrious golf tournament.

Adare Manor is a purpose built golf course. Both the design and construction of the course were specifically aimed at producing  a challenging yet memorable playing experience for golfers of every level and most importantly to attract premiere professional and amateur golf events.

With this objective achieved, we will be meticulously  working alongside the passionate and devoted team of greenkeepers led by Alan MacDonnell, to ensure that Adare Manor provides an unforgettable and captivating Ryder Cup in 7 years time.

Congratulations to everyone involved in this amazing Golf Course.

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July 26, 2019 /  

Maintaining Southeast Asia’s first proper links

 

A brand-new Vietnam golf course is betting on Zeon zoysiagrass — and a skilled superintendent — to deliver firm and fast conditions in the tropical environment.

GCM June 19, 2019 | Hal Phillips

Superintendent Rob Weiks has been looking after golf courses in the tropical maelstrom of Vietnam since 2010. Throughout the course of his career, growing-in five courses and tending separately to half a dozen finished tracks, the native Australian has dealt extensively with the two warm-season grasses traditionally used in Southeast Asia: the various modern strains of bermudagrass and paspalum.

“I was actually sort of seen as a paspalum specialist,” says Weiks. “I was at Van Tri Golf Club in Hanoi — that was paspalum, Sea Isle 2000 and Salam. I went to Star Golf, which was all bermuda. Then I went and did some cool-season stuff. But then I did the grow-in at Saigon Golf Club with paspalum, and bermuda greens. I got that job because of my experience at Van Tri. When the Saigon GC job dissolved, I got the job at Twin Doves (Golf Club), which was all Platinum paspalum.” Continue reading →

June 21, 2019 /  

Adare Manor named world’s best hotel for 2018

AWARDS KEEP COMING FOR ADARE MANOR AFTER ‘HOTEL OF THE YEAR 2018’ WIN AT THE VIRTUOSO ‘BEST OF THE BEST AWARDS’

-Ireland’s 5* castle and golf resort receives global recognition at world’s biggest luxury travel trade show-

Limerick, Ireland (Thursday, 16th August 2018) – 5* hotel and golf resort, Adare Manor, has been declared ‘Hotel of the Year 2018’ in the highly competitive and globally renowned Virtuoso ‘Best of the Best Awards 2018’.

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August 17, 2018 /  

Tom Fazio discusses his firm’s work at Adare Manor

By Toby Ingleton, Thu 08 Feb, 2018

This article first appeared in issue 51 of Golf Course Architecture.

What do you consider to be the most significant features of this project?

Adare Manor has always been a great fun place to stay and enjoy Irish hospitality with a beautiful setting along the River Maigue. The challenge was to create a course that tourists would want to play on a golf trip to Ireland, which is known for oceanfront, windswept links golf. To accomplish this task on an inland site which is definitely not links, we went the other way and created a strategic, park-style championship venue that will be meticulously manicured. Most golfers will have never seen anything like this course. It is unique and special, with its own very distinctive Irish vegetation and wildlife. Through extensive redesign and shaping of every hole and installing 135 acres of drained, sand-capped, fast and firm, low cut turf, wall to wall, this golf course looks and plays like no other course in Ireland.

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March 6, 2018 /  
Trevor Norris

Strengthening Turfgrass

Turfgrass appoints new Senior Agronomy Consultant

(Wicklow, Ireland) 4th August 2017. Turfgrass, the specialist golf course project management and agronomy company, are pleased to announce its recent appointment of Trevor Norris as Senior Agronomy Consultant. Trevor will be working alongside the Director of Agronomy, Julian Mooney and supporting the Managing Director, John Clarkin on numerous Golf projects across the company’s client portfolio.

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August 4, 2017 /  1

Braemar Golf Partner with Turgrass to Elevate LaLargue

Braemar Golf have teamed up with the industry leading Turfgrass, to assist Golf Club de LaLargue with their vision to elevate their golf course to one of the best conditioned and presented in their region of France and Switzerland.

Golf Club de LaLargue, a Swiss Club but located in the Alsace region of France, have recently appointed a new General Manager, Graham Stewart, and developed a strategic business plan to develop and enhance the club into one of the top clubs in the region and the country. A major part of this is to review and improve the condition and presentation of the golf course.

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February 21, 2017 /  

Ground has been broken on Henrik Stenson’s first golf course

Golf Course Architect Christian Lundin with Henrik Stenson

Golf Course Architect Christian Lundin (left) with Henrik Stenson

Last summer, Stenson, the Champion Golfer of the Year and winner of the Race to Dubai 2016, announced the beginning of a new era when he formed his own golf course design firm and at the same time signed his first contract in the design business to do a major redesign of Österåker Golf Club outside Stockholm, Sweden.

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January 3, 2017 /