{"id":378,"date":"2006-06-30T18:02:38","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T02:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2006-06-30T18:02:38","modified_gmt":"2006-07-01T02:02:38","slug":"ireland-golf-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2006\/06\/30\/ireland-golf-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Golf Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I played <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegolflinks.com\/\">Carne Golf Links<\/a> in Bellmullet, on the extreme northwest coast of Ireland.  It was about a three-hour drive from Galway, but well worth it.  What a course!  This is now my favorite Irish course.  I was hitting the ball quite well, but I can&#8217;t even bear to repeat my score, because this course is brutally hard!  The greens are rock-hard and fast and often funnel off onto hills, so even a careful chip or pitch can end up rolling into oblivion.  Many approach shots are blind over huge grass-covered dunes, and the wind was blowing about 30 miles per hour.  But it was a blast.  Here are some pictures:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"carne3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidopderbeck.com\/archives\/carne3.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes &#8212; those dunes are as big as they look, and crowd the fairway.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"carne1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidopderbeck.com\/archives\/carne1.jpg?w=580\"><\/p>\n<p>My bag was serving as a tripod &#8212; the pullcart handle framed the picture well.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"carne2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidopderbeck.com\/archives\/carne2.jpg?w=580\"><\/p>\n<p>With the wind blowing hard behind me, I smacked my drive well over 350 yards right down the middle on this Par 4 &#8212; and it ended up in a bunker!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I played Carne Golf Links in Bellmullet, on the extreme northwest coast of Ireland. It was about a three-hour drive from Galway, but well worth it. What a course! This is now my favorite Irish course. I was hitting the ball quite well, but I can&#8217;t even bear to repeat my score, because this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-66","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}