Golf
Waterford's golf courses offer a delightful mix if link and parkland courses. You can choose from eight courses including Tramore, Faithlegg, Waterford Castle, and many more. Visitors are welcome - we can help you arrange tee times and reduced green fees. A few of the most popular Golf Courses in the area are:
Approx 1 hours drive.
Designed by Jack Nicklaus and opened in july 1991, this 18 hole course has already been voted best inland course in ireland. Set close by the River Nore, water comes into play on six holes; the beauty of woodland trees is ever present, while some eighty eight ever-vigilant bunkers, strategicallty placed throughout the course, place a premium on accuracy from tee to green. Mount juliet hosted the Irish Open in '93,'94 and '95.
Tramore
5 min Drive
The view from the club house at Tramore Golf Club is magnificent, embracing, as it does practically the whole course with the lofty Comeragh Mountains in the distant background. This site, which is gently undulating and intercepted with two streams , is as mafnificent as an 18 hole championship course as ever pleased the eye. Tramore has hosted several IPGA events as well as Amateur championships.
Waterford Castle
20 min Drive
Waterford Castle Golf Club, Irelands only true island course, is situated in the estuary of the River Suir, one mile downstream of waterford city. An 18 hole course of full championship standard. With sand based tees and greens and a full irrigation system to tees,greens and fairways, the course also features many mature plantations, a number of artifical lakes to add to the beautiful parkland setting, and superb bunkering, strategically placed to test the long hitter.
