27 Hole Parkland
Course Facts: Address
Fota Island
CorkSecretary/Manager: Johnathan Woods Captain: Sean Nolan Lady Captain: Brid Cronin Telephone: 021-4883700 President: Carl Dillon & Anne O'Hourihane Public No: 021-4883700 Vice-Captain: Tim Desmond & Rose Beamish Fax: 021-4883713 Hon. Secretary: Kevin Cruise-O'Shea & Gina Archer E-mail: reservations@fotaisland.ie Club Pro: Kevin Morris 021-4883700 Website: www.fotaisland.ie Hon. Treasurer: Roger Barrett & Leta-Sue Brady Founded: 1993 Designed by: Jeff Howes Membership: 505 Course opening hours: Daylight hours Green Fees Midweek: €100 Clubhouse opening hours: 8.00am to 11.30pm Green Fees Weekends & B.H.: €120 Mobile phones: Not on course or in clubhouse Green Fees With a Member: €41.5/49 Dress Code: Neat casual Green Fees For Opens: €55 Catering: Full catering facilities Practice Area: Yes Days to Avoid: None Club Hire: Yes Green Fees and Societies Welcome: Every day Buggy Hire: Yes Pre-booking for open tournaments: 14 Days in advance Soft spikes: Yes
Course Description:
With an additional nines holes recently added to the estate, Fota Island Resort offers a choice of three distinctly challenging courses. The Par 71 Deerpark (The original) with receptive greens and strategic bunkering impresses even the most experienced professionals. The stunning 18th is a truly remarkable feature of this course, and will undoubtedly bring your round to the prefect conclusion. The Belvelly, a Par 72 course, includes the new nine hole layout – which was also developed by Jeff Howes. While incorporating some unique and exciting features, intended to challenge even the most competitive golfer, the course remains perfectly loyal to the traditional style and values that characterise Fota Island as a whole. The Par 73 Barryscourt, with its gently undulating greens, will demand that your putting game is in top shape. What’s more, the newly designed par 3 8th Hole – cleverly guarded with a variety of hazards – will reward those who possess the advantage of an accurate tee-shot.
Fota Island Resort was, awarded with the accolade as "The Best Golf Course of the Year" for 2001, by the Irish Golf Tours Operators Association.Fota Island is located in the heart of a 780-acre estate, which is included in the "Inventory of Outstanding Landscapes of Ireland". The splendid woodlands are woven into a challenging par 71championship course, which is complemented by an impressive driving range, with practice putting and chipping greens.Fota Island was the venue 2001 and 2002 Murphy’s Irish Open, joining the august company of Ballybunion, Portmarnock, Druid’s Glen, Killarney and Mount Juliet as an Irish Open venue.
Golf Digest, USA wrote of Fota, "It’s time for a breath of true golfing air "Fota eschews the Schwarzenegger-like brutality in favour of guile and subtlety. Depending on how you "see" the shot in your mind, you could be playing any of three different clubs. In other words, it makes you think, it’s real golf".Golf Monthly, U.K. wrote "It’s a mark of imaginative design when a new course appears old before the paint is dry...Some of their innovations evoke other times and other values. Purists will delight at the old fashioned features...you’ll stand in wide-eyed admiration". Voted the No. 22-ranked golf course in Ireland, by “Golf Digest Ireland” in 2008. Fota Island was voted No. 9 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
It would appear that golf was first played at Fota Island before November, 1886. There is even an argument that it is the second-oldest course in Ireland. The Belfast Newsletter; 1st November, reports "Since November 1881, when the Belfast club was instituted, no less than three additional courses have been laid down, in different parts of the country. The second was Fota Island, one of our London contemporaries noticing an opening-game at Fota Island" If this is the case, it may well be the oldest club in Cork, as Kinsale was not mentioned before June, 1883. The Irish Times on the 6th January, 1906, reads "New links at Fota Island, in the demesne at Fota, Lady Barrymore has laid out a golf-course of nine-holes, which compares favourably with any inland links. Upon them will be played, next month, a stroke-competition under, handicap, for a valuable silver cup, kindly presented by Lady Barrymore. The entries will be open to members of Cork and Rushbrook golf-clubs only". There is no further mention of golf at Fota Island until the early 1990s, when Christy O’Connor Jnr., designed a new eighteen-hole course. The club was founded in 1993, then, in 1999, a major, redesign was carried out by Jeff Howes. The result was that Fota was the venue of the Murphy’s Irish Open, in 2001, and 2002.
Location
Take the N25 exit to Cobh and the entrance is on your right-hand side
Members Achievements
Lady Captain Rose Negle, Captain Finbar Cotter and P. Hourihane, qualified for the National Finals of the Mercedes-Benz Irish Independent Executive Golf Classic at The K Club on August 12th 2002.
Pat O'Brien was selected for the Munster Boys' team in the Interprovincial Championships at Headfort Golf Club from August 28-30 2002.
The Ladies of Fota Island Golf Club won the ILGU Minor League in 1997.
Card of the Course (yards)
Hole No Blue White Green Par Index Red Par Index 1 569 543 515 5 6 457 5 3 2 540 513 485 5 18 437 5 11 3 190 180 170 3 14 158 3 17 4 587 559 527 5 16 473 5 7 5 415 396 376 4 8 337 4 1 6 473 451 421 4 2 377 4 1 7 435 416 393 4 4 356 4 5 8 173 168 156 3 12 141 3 13 9 396 382 365 4 10 326 4 15 Out 3,778 3,608 3,408 37 3,062 37 10 409 360 343 4 7 310 4 4 11 461 430 392 4 3 344 4 6 12 165 153 131 3 9 118 3 16 13 548 529 513 5 15 444 5 8 14 544 509 480 5 17 428 5 14 15 376 357 330 4 13 293 4 12 16 179 168 146 3 11 105 3 18 17 478 450 439 4 1 412 5 10 18 424 394 385 4 5 345 4 2 In 3,584 3,350 3,159 36 2,799 37 Total 7,362 6,951 6,560 73 5,861 74 SSS 75 72 71 73
Men's Course Record: Am: 67 Padraig Harrington Pro: 63 Colin Montgomerie
Ladies Course Record:
Alternative card of the Course (yards)
Hole No Blue White Green Par Index Red Par Index 1 500 487 475 5 16 452 5 9 2 168 156 123 3 14 108 3 17 3 428 394 360 4 4 325 4 3 4 208 194 182 3 12 161 3 13 5 417 397 375 4 2 337 4 1 6 476 428 404 4 6 378 4 7 7 417 400 390 4 8 355 4 5 8 222 203 162 3 10 146 3 15 9 507 479 470 5 18 448 5 11 Out 3,343 3,138 2,941 35 2,710 35 10 569 543 515 5 5 457 5 4 11 540 513 485 5 17 437 5 12 12 190 180 170 3 13 158 3 18 13 587 559 527 5 15 473 5 12 14 415 396 376 4 7 337 4 10 15 473 451 421 4 1 377 4 2 16 435 416 393 4 3 356 4 6 17 173 168 156 3 11 141 3 14 18 396 382 365 4 9 326 4 16 In 3,778 3,608 3,408 37 3,062 37 Total 7,121 6,739 6,353 72 5,772 72 SSS 74 72 71 73
Roll of Honour Ann Fitzgerald 1993 Ladies Captain Eleanor Bruen 1993 Ladies President Basil Hegarty 1993 Men's Captain Anthony Murphy 1993 President Ann Fitzgerald 1994 Ladies Captain Eleanor Bruen 1994 Ladies President Basil Hegarty 1994 Men's Captain Anthony Murphy 1994 President Ann Fitzgerald 1995 Ladies Captain Eleanor Bruen 1995 Ladies President Basil Hegarty 1995 Men's Captain Anthony Murphy 1995 President Anne Horgan 1996 Ladies Captain D. Dwyer 1996 Ladies President Michael Madigan 1996 Men's Captain Edward Gleeson 1996 President Rose McGinn 1997 Ladies Captain D. Dwyer 1997 Ladies President Michael Enright 1997 Men's Captain Roddy Galvin 1997 President Margot Mulcahy 1998 Ladies Captain Mary McKechnie 1998 Ladies President Frank Kelly 1998 Men's Captain Joseph O'Connor 1998 President Marie O'Donoghue 1999 Ladies Captain Mary McKechnie 1999 Ladies President Cormac Spain 1999 Men's Captain Tom Raftery 1999 President Anne O'Hourihane 2000 Ladies Captain Daireen Foott 2000 Ladies President John Downes 2000 Men's Captain Peter Barry 2000 President Ger Mulcahy 2001 Ladies Captain Daireen Foott 2001 Ladies President Liam McGinn 2001 Men's Captain Ulick Cronin 2001 President Rose Nagle 2002 Ladies Captain Una English 2002 Ladies President Finbar Cotter 2002 Men's Captain Peadar O'Hourihane 2002 President Mary Daunt 2003 Ladies Captain Ida O'Riordan 2003 Ladies President Joe O'Connor 2003 Men's Captain Johnny Downes 2003 President Patricia Coughlin 2004 Ladies Captain Marie O'Mullane 2004 Ladies President John Roche 2004 Men's Captain George Mellerick 2004 President Rose McKenna 2005 Ladies Captain Anne Smith 2005 Ladies President Gabriel McCarthy 2005 Men's Captain Kieran Galvin 2005 President Eileen Twomey 2006 Ladies Captain Oonagh Hegarty 2006 Ladies President Michael Long 2006 Men's Captain Bernard Brennan 2006 President Pauline Hoey 2007 Ladies Captain June Barry 2007 Ladies President Frank Holt 2007 Men's Captain Liam Treacy 2007 President Kate McCann (3) 2008 Lowest Ladies Handicap Thomas O'Flynn 2008 Lowest Men's Handicap
Holes-in-One Person Date Hole No. Club Used Distance Eamonn O'Connor 17 January 1998 3rd 156 yd's Peader O'Hourihan 26 March 2000 3rd 156 yd's John A. Brophey 13 March 2000 11th 168 yd's