The Course, Hole by Hole
The 3rd: The Castle
Par 3, 194 Yards
If you need a break, enter the gothic-arch doorway; inside is a stone staircase to the left and the “murdering hole” overhead – intruders were greeted by boiling water, stones and other missiles from the above.
Hardly visible is part of a deep ditch – the oldest preserved feature of the course – which once encircled a promontory fort in the Bronze Age, long before the castle was built.
Playing Tips
The show-piece of the course – a slender finger of green rising from the crashing waves – requires no more than an eight or nine iron, but the rocks and hungry sea at the right have claimed many a ball. It is hard not to be distracted by the 14th century castle/tower, with the backdrop of Fenit Island and the sweeping panorama of mountains and Tralee Bay.
- 194 Yards
- 158 Yards
- 145 Yards
- 124 Yards