Portmarnock Golf Course: Potential New Open Championship Venue?

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00:00Let's just talk a little bit about this golf course.

00:06You've played it before, but there's rumors that they may get an open championship.

00:11Just what was your impressions of that golf course as we, uh, I've already kind of discussed

00:14European and Island club.

00:16Yeah, I think European and Island club were, um, were, uh, you know, incredibly unique

00:22and Port Marnick is, uh, is more like proper standard links.

00:27You don't have anything that's, um, kind of odd or wild that sticks out in a way.

00:32It's also, it was the closest to, to Dublin.

00:35Um, so I think that would be incredible for if the infrastructure is there, which I guess

00:40they're figuring out that it can be, you know, what a, what a scene that could be.

00:44Because I think about, you know, I think about that Adair Manor pro-am and who showed up

00:49like the crowds that showed up there, you know, and, and I mean, it was, it was unbelievable.

00:55And I, I think the whole, I mean, the, um, Port Rush open was amazing, but then you throw

01:00one like right there where you're within a half hour of, um, of Dublin, what a scene

01:06that'll be.

01:07And then, um, not to mention, you know, you could have carnage off that first tee.

01:12Yeah.

01:13I mean, once you do the first hole, you put it on the ground and you hit a little butter

01:18cut driver off the deck and then you hit a nine iron to about a foot and a half and you

01:24walk up and you pick it up.

01:26And that's, uh, that's the Smiley Kaufman route.

01:28Uh, it will be one that you hit a two iron on the next hour, about 60 yards away.

01:32Well, we're still on number one, number one, you kind of ease into the course a little

01:38bit, but you know, it's all about the conditions.

01:40So it's a, it's a, it's a cool golf course.

01:43You know, that wind picked up for us on that back nine, it showed a little bit and the

01:47bunkers are just kind of like a true and it's like, they're so annoyingly placed right where

01:52you're going to drive the ball.

01:53So, you know, mix and match of being able to make Eagle, but bogey on the same hole,

01:58which when you guys made Eagle, I think I'm still playing that whole right now.

02:01I still don't think I don't think I finished it.

02:04Was it the whole word bounce through the course or like we, we acted like it bounced through

02:08the course.

02:09I also shanked like three bunker shots in a row on the same hole.

02:12So I'm still playing.

02:13Yeah.

02:14I would struggle to get in on single digits, but you guys made it look pretty easy.