Malahide Golf Club

President: Jack Gleeson
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Holes: 27 holes
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Green Fee: 55 euro - 90 euro
Cart Fee: yes
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Is there a hotel: No
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Extra info
Malahide Golf Club, one of Ireland's oldest golf clubs, was founded in 1892 by Nathaniel Hone R.H.A. reputedly the greatest Irish landscape painter of the period. He was Captain of the Club from 1892 to 1896 while his close friend Richard Wogan, 5th Baron Talbot de Malahide was the Club's first President holding that office from 1892 to his death in 1921.


Other distinguished members and regular players on the course in the Club's early days were the Duke of Connaught, brother of King Edward VII and James H. Cambell, later Lord Glenavy, first Chairman of the Senate of the Irish Free State. His grandson, Patrick Cambell was a well known humorist and T.V. personality as well as being a golfer of distinction.

While it is evident from contemporary accounts that the original course was by no means a difficult test of golf it had, it is clear, a unique charm of place and time. Sadly, it quickly became obvious to the members that serious erosion from the sea threatened their course a