18 Hole Parkland
Course Facts: Address
Arklow
Co. WicklowSecretary/Manager: Kevin Mulcahy Captain: Tony Richardson Lady Captain: Flo Meredith Telephone: 0402-35202 President: Heather Tyrrell Public No: 0402-35630 Vice-Captain: Gavin Moran & Mary McGrath Fax: 0402-35754 Hon. Secretary: T. J. Mernagh & Annett Holden E-mail: wgc@eircom.net Club Pro: None-Shop Website: www.woodenbridgegolfclub.com Hon. Treasurer: Gerry O'Neill & Lesley Williams Founded: 1884 Designed by: Pat Merrigan Membership: 736 Course opening hours: Daylight hours Green Fees Midweek: €55 Clubhouse opening hours: 9.00am to 11.00pm Green Fees Weekends & B.H.: €65 Mobile phones: Not on course or in clubhouse Green Fees With a Member: €20 Dress Code: Neat casual, no denim Green Fees For Opens: N/A Catering: Full catering facilities Practice Area: Yes Days to Avoid: Sundays & Thursdays Club Hire: No Green Fees and Societies Welcome: Other days Buggy Hire: Yes Pre-booking for open tournaments: 14 Days in advance Soft spikes: No
Course Description:
Designed by Paddy Merrigan, Woodenbridge is undoubtedly one of the most scenic golf courses you will have the pleasure of playing. Measuring 6,400 yd's of the back tees, with a par 71 and a standard scratch of 70. Woodenbridge is a parkland course with level terrain and traversed by meandering rivers which create wonderful golf holes. Sitting in the Vale of Avoca, overlooked by Sylvan Hills it is truly a magnificent setting.The clubhouse overlooks the course and has a full bar and excellent restaurant, facilities. The visitor is extended the warmest of welcomes and you will keep going back to Woodenbridge, for the golf and if your game is not at its best the magnificent scenery will more than compensate.Woodenbridge has recently built a magnificent new clubhouse catering for the golfers every need.
Voted the No. 98-ranked golf course in Ireland, by “Golf Digest Ireland” in 2008. Woodenbeidge was voted No. 30 Parkland/Inland 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.
Open & Major fixtures 2008: Event
Start
Finish
Type
Duration
No fixtures until 2009.
Club History
Instituted 1897, affiliated 1899. There is some confusion as to the origins of this club. The "Irish Field", on the 25th of July 1908, records "The club was started in 1897 and owes a great deal to the late Colonel Bayly, who did all in his power to further its interests, giving the land free"There are claims that in 1884, Colonel Bayly invited Sir Stanley Cochrane to field a team of gentlemen to play golf at Woodenbridge.
The best account of the formation of Woodenbridge is given in "The Irish Golfer" on the 3rd October 1900, and it records "This club was formed about three years ago. The original members numbered only about six or seven. Owing to the kindness of Colonel E. R. Bayly, Ballyarthur, Co. Wicklow, the President of the club, who permitted grounds of his, adjoining the Woodenbridge Railway Station, to be turned into a golf links, the difficulties attached to the formation of the club were speedily got over. It has improved every year, so that now there are about sixty members.
The links is a grassland course, are beautifully situated, bounded on one side by the woods of Ballyarthur, and the other side by the river Avoca, the greens are carefully kept and the sod on them is considered to be second to none on any inland links in the country.” Woodenbridge has since extended to eighteen-holes and it is the most scenic inland course I have seen in the country.
Location
Arklow Town you take a right, follow the road to Woodenbridge until you come to Woodenbridge Hotel and the course is directly opposite on your right-hand side.
Members Achievements
Lady Captain Phyllis O'Rourke, Captain Ian Bothwell and Honorary Secretary Brian Hurley, qualified for the National Finals of the Mercedes-Benz Irish Independent Executive Golf Classic at The K Club on August 12th 2002.Lady Captain Phyllis O'Rourke (19) and her Captains Prize Winner Anne Mernagh (14) qualified for the National Finals of the Volkswagen-Irish Independent Lady Captains' Golf Classic at Druid's Glen in October 2002, when they returned 43 points at The Royal Dublin Golf Club in September.
R. J. Moran represented Leinster in 1979.
Miss Denise McCarthy was selected to play in the European Ladies Team Championship at Wentworth Golf Club in 1991 and played in the Ladies Home Internationals at Wrexham in 1995 and she won the Stroke Play Foursomes together with Miss Eavan Higgins of Douglas in 1992.
Card of the Course (yards)
Hole No Blue Green Par Index Red Par Index 1 360 347 4 9 327 4 11 2 419 381 4 3 372 4 5 3 374 346 4 13 342 4 7 4 190 174 3 7 160 3 13 5 407 382 4 5 359 4 1 6 448 426 4 1 416 5 15 7 322 308 4 15 285 4 9 8 121 113 3 17 109 3 17 9 502 486 5 11 464 5 3 Out 3,135 2,963 35 2,834 36 10 455 434 4 2 374 4 2 11 194 193 3 4 164 3 10 12 353 341 4 16 290 4 14 13 386 375 4 10 311 4 8 14 295 284 4 18 255 4 16 15 500 473 5 12 454 5 4 16 357 341 4 14 301 4 12 17 167 153 3 8 97 3 18 18 551 536 5 6 456 5 6 In 3,258 3,130 36 2,702 36 Total 6,393 6,093 71 5,536 72 SSS 70 69 71
Men's Course Record:
Ladies Course Record:
Roll of Honour Ann Fallon 1990 Ladies Captain Mrs. I. Ryan 1990 Ladies President N. G. Doyle 1990 Men's Captain E. Jarrett 1990 President Vivienne Jarrett 1991 Ladies Captain Mrs. I. Ryan 1991 Ladies President M. Duffy 1991 Men's Captain Rev. J. A. O'Brien 1991 President Alyse McCarthy 1992 Ladies Captain Mrs. N. Butler 1992 Ladies President J. J. Moran 1992 Men's Captain Rev. J. A. O'Brien 1992 President J. Birthistle 1993 Ladies Captain Mrs. C. Kavanagh 1993 Ladies President N. A. Barry 1993 Men's Captain M. J. Murray 1993 President Doris Tyrrell 1994 Ladies Captain Mrs. J. B. Joyce 1994 Ladies President D. P. Brennan 1994 Men's Captain M. J. Murray 1994 President Muriel Byrne 1995 Ladies Captain Noelle Doyle 1995 Ladies President Dr. P. G. Liddy 1995 Men's Captain M. A. Healy 1995 President Marita Ryan 1996 Ladies Captain Moira Boden 1996 Ladies President P. A. Corcoran 1996 Men's Captain M. A. Healy 1996 President Mary McDonald 1997 Ladies Captain Doris Tyrrell 1997 Ladies President G. P. Phelan 1997 Men's Captain J. B. Joyce 1997 President Margaret A. Byrne 1998 Ladies Captain Mena Sarjent 1998 Ladies President R. C. Stapleton 1998 Men's Captain J. B. Joyce 1998 President Mrs. Ann Liddy 1999 Ladies Captain Mrs. Kay Kenny 1999 Ladies President Jim Kavanagh 1999 Men's Captain Paddy O'Brien 1999 President Breda Murphy 2000 Ladies Captain Mrs. Ethel Kelly 2000 Ladies President Brian Hurley 2000 Men's Captain Don Barrett 2000 President Mrs. Mary Hickson 2001 Ladies Captain Mrs. Mary Byrne 2001 Ladies President Thomas J. Mernagh 2001 Men's Captain W. J. Moran 2001 President Phyllis O'Rourke 2002 Ladies Captain L. Byrne 2002 Ladies President Ian Bothwell 2002 Men's Captain T. O'Neill 2002 President Eleanor Hunt 2003 Ladies Captain Maura Crummy 2003 Ladies President Frank Duffy 2003 Men's Captain Dr. P. G. Liddy 2003 President A. Hurley 2004 Ladies Captain Ann Fallon 2004 Ladies President D. M. Healy 2004 Men's Captain J. Moran 2004 President Mary Reynolds 2005 Ladies Captain Paddy O'Brien 2005 Men's Captain John Kavanagh 2005 President Alyse McCarthy 2006 Ladies Captain Dudley Byrne 2006 Men's Captain John Kavanagh 2006 President Alyse McCarthy 2007 Ladies Captain Marie O'Brien 2007 Ladies President Sean Darcy 2007 Men's Captain John Kavanagh 2007 President