18 Hole Links
Course Facts: Address
Glenbeigh
Co. KerrySecretary/Manager: Declan Mangan Captain: Tom Curran Lady Captain: Mary Keane Telephone: 066-9768205 President: Alex Spain & Margaret O'Donoghue Public No: 066-9768200 Vice-Captain: Seamus Shaughnessy Fax: 066-9768476 Hon. Secretary: Tom Foley & Rose Cunningham E-mail: office@dooks.com Club Pro: None Shop Website: www.dooks.com Hon. Treasurer: Eamonn Foley Founded: 1889 Designed by: Martin Hawtree Membership: 733 Course opening hours: Daylight hours Green Fees Midweek: €80 Clubhouse opening hours: 9.00am to 11.00am Green Fees Weekends & B.H.: €80 Mobile phones: Not on course or in clubhouse Green Fees With a Member: €20 Dress Code: Neat casual, no denim Green Fees For Opens: €10 Catering: Full catering facilities Practice Area: Yes Days to Avoid: Sundays Club Hire: No Green Fees and Societies Welcome: Other days Buggy Hire: No Pre-booking for open tournaments: 14 Days in advance Soft spikes: No
Course Description:
A truly traditional experience, so far as the golfer who is seeking a beautiful and tranquil environment to enjoy good golf, Dooks presents a convincing case. Hole number 13 best illustrates the charm and magic of Dooks. It is a throw back hole to the time when golf began. Greens lay where they fell and were better for it.The golf course is set out on one of three stretches of sand dunes at the head of Dingle Bay. In the immediate foreground are the sand dune peninsulas of Rossbeigh and Inch and just a few miles away the whitewashed houses of Cromane fishing village provide an eye-catching distraction.
South Eastwards are the famed MacGillycuddy Reeks, to the South West are the lovely cooms and hills of Glenbeigh and across the bay to the north are the Slieve Mish and Dingle mountains. Dooks are presently undertaking a major upgrading of their links in order to keep pace with modern improvements in golf equipment. Societies are welcome and group rates are available. Voted the No. 54-ranked golf course in Ireland, by “Golf Digest Ireland” in 2008. Dooks was voted No. 25 Links/Shoreline Course in Ireland by "Backspin" Irelands leading Golf magazine in 2008, the panel comprised of a selection of 52 Professional and amateur golfers throughout Ireland.
Dooks Golf Club operate a Three-Club Pass together with Ceann Sibeal & Killarney for €165 in 2008.
Open & Major fixtures 2008: Event
Start
Finish
Type
Duration
No fixtures until 2009.
Club History
Instituted 1895 affiliated 1910. The records of Dooks Golf Club are missing prior to 1910. However, it would appear that Dooks has used the following names, depending on who was running the course at the time. Caragh Lake, Caragh and Dooks, Dooks, and Glenbeigh.There is a tradition in the club that golf was played here by the military as far back as 1886. In an article in Irish Golf, of November, 1936, the Hon. Secretary Mrs. Hickson says "officially founded in 1895, it is really in existence for close on fifty years." Mrs. Hickson went on to say she had played there, with the late Lord Kitchener and Messrs David Roche and C. Downing.
The club was formed, under the auspices of the Director of the Great Southern Hotel, at Caragh and a few of the residents in the neighbourhood. There were fifty members in 1899 and had a small pavilion of its own, on competition days they had to use the Lodge. The Hon. Secretary at the time, was F. R. Bateman, of Glenbeigh.
Location
Between Killorglin and Glenbeigh, just off the N70.
Members Achievements
Dooks won the Kerry Shield in 1984, when the team was Michael Shanahan, Tom Curran, Billy Dodd, Ted Houlihan, George Boyle, Gene Ahern and John McGillycuddy. They won it again in 1985, when the team was Arthur Boyle, Eric Brick, Dermot O'Grady, Declan Mangan and George Boyle.They won the Cork Examiner Am-Am at Waterville Golf Club in July 1979, with Sean O'Connor, John F. O'Connell and Michael Murphy. They won the Dr. Bill O'Sullivan Shield in 2000.
The Ladies of Dooks Golf Club won the ILGU Junior League in 1997 when the team was Mary Curran, Rose Cunningham, Dolores Foley, Catherine Foley, Margaret O'Sullivan, Brenda Brick, Kay Woods, Catherine O'Donoghue, Delia Foley and Anne Mangan, they were managed by Anne Gannon.
They won the Munster Cup in 1991 at Charleville Golf Club, with Joan Harmon, Mary Keane and Meg O'Shaughnessy. ILGU Munster Junior Championship in 1995, with Meg O'Shaughnessy and in 2002 with Eileen O'Sullivan.
They won the ILGU Minor League in 1987 and again in 1990.
Card of the Course (yards)
Hole No White Yellow Par Index Red Par Index 1 393 372 4 4 341 4 4 2 302 300 4 18 270 4 18 3 369 342 4 12 311 4 6 4 177 169 3 8 156 3 12 5 394 380 4 6 345 4 2 6 477 454 5 16 402 5 10 7 368 322 4 10 302 4 14 8 183 165 3 14 143 3 16 9 510 500 5 4 409 5 8 Out 3,191 3,009 36 2,679 36 10 531 523 5 15 428 5 11 11 163 151 3 13 124 3 17 12 370 332 4 7 298 4 5 13 170 141 3 17 134 3 13 14 416 406 4 1 336 4 1 15 357 329 4 9 282 4 7 16 382 357 4 11 327 4 9 17 391 351 4 5 322 4 3 18 430 415 4 3 409 5 15 In 3,210 3,005 35 2,660 36 Total 6,401 6,009 71 5,339 71 SSS 70 69 69
Men's Course Record:
Ladies Course Record:
Roll of Honour Sheila Burke 1989 Ladies Captain J. A. O'Dwyer 1989 Men's Captain S. M. O'Sullivan 1989 President Joan Harmon 1990 Ladies Captain Owen O'Sullivan 1990 Men's Captain C. A. Foley 1990 President Else Stern 1991 Ladies Captain Ted Houlihan 1991 Men's Captain P. J. Foley 1991 President Eileen Griffin 1992 Ladies Captain Dave Marchant 1992 Men's Captain P. J. Foley 1992 President Catherine Foley 1993 Ladies Captain Austin O'Reilly 1993 Men's Captain Colleen Walsh 1993 President Anne Roantree 1994 Ladies Captain Gene Aherne 1994 Men's Captain Colin Walsh 1994 President Sandra Khan 1995 Ladies Captain Shane O'Reilly 1995 Men's Captain John Kinch 1995 President Rose Cunningham 1996 Ladies Captain Michael Sullivan 1996 Men's Captain John Kinch 1996 President Kathleen Sugrue 1997 Ladies Captain John Breen 1997 Men's Captain J. B. O'Shea 1997 President Brenda Brick 1998 Ladies Captain Tom Foley 1998 Men's Captain J. B. O'Shea 1998 President Helen Aherne 1999 Ladies Captain Aidan Gannon 1999 Men's Captain W. D. O'Grady 1999 President Sheelagh Yeates 2000 Ladies Captain Muriel Boyle 2000 Ladies President Conor O'Mahony 2000 Men's Captain W. D. O'Grady 2000 President Madeleine Crowley 201 Ladies Captain Lillian Carmody 201 Ladies President Patrick O'Connor 201 Men's Captain Maurice Neligan 201 President Mary Curran 2002 Ladies Captain Phyllis O'Sullivan 2002 Ladies President Jerome Foley 2002 Men's Captain Maurice Neligan 2002 President Kathleen O'Sullivan 2003 Ladies Captain Kay O'Sullivan 2003 Ladies President Eric Brick 2003 Men's Captain Seamus Roantree 2003 President Helyn O'Neill 2004 Ladies Captain Frankie Bickel 2004 Ladies President Fergus Foley 2004 Men's Captain Seamus Roantree 2004 President Joan O'Shea 2005 Ladies Captain Fionnuala Cronin 2005 Ladies President Mike Breen 2005 Men's Captain Austin O'Reilly 2005 President Gillian Mangan 2006 Ladies Captain Elsa Stern 2006 Ladies President Aiden O'Shea 2006 Men's Captain Austin O'Reilly 2006 President Ann O'Sullivan 2007 Ladies Captain Margaret O'Donoghue 2007 Ladies President Donal Brosnan 2007 Men's Captain Sean O'Sullivan 2007 President Mary Keane 2008 Ladies Captain Margaret O'Donoghue 2008 Ladies President Tom Curran 2008 Men's Captain Alex Spain 2008 President Meg O'Shaughnessy 2008 Lowest Ladies H'cap Shane Harmon (2) 2008 Lowest Men's H'cap
Holes-in-One Person Date Hole No. Club Used Distance E. Brick 08 September 2002 5th 194 yd's Tom McNicholas 01 September 201 13th 150 yd's Martin Mitchell 03 September 2000 13th 150 yd's Aidan O'Shea 23 January 2000 2nd 131 yd's Liz Morton 01 April 1999 2nd 131 yd's Barry Harmon 08 September 2000 9th 183 yd's Michael O'Sullivan 28 January 201 13th 150 yd's Sandra Kane 22 May 201 2nd 118 yd's Eamonn McGillycuddy 29 July 201 9th 183 yd's Michael Johnston 22 July 201 2nd 131 yd's Michael O'Donoghue 09 June 201 13th 150 yd's Michael McGillycuddy 05 August 201 13th 170 yd's Tom McNicholas 26 August 201 13th 170 yd's Pat Kelly 03 June 2002 2nd 130 yd's Michael Breen 14 December 2002 13th 170 yd's Nuala Curran 08 June 2003 2nd 118 yd's Sean O'Connor 29 July 2003 2nd 131 yd's Diarmuid McElligott 01 October 2003 13th 150 yd's Vincent Heffernan 23 May 2004 13th 170 yd's Dolores Doyle 28 June 2005 8th 143 yd's Lee Johgwon 08 August 2005 8th 183 yd's John Stewart 09 August 2005 8th 165 yd's