Wednesday 13th September 2023 Shotgun start at 1pm • Texas Scramble (mixed)
Team entry £300 NTP on all par 3’s Prizes for the leading two teams Longest Drive (Men and Ladies) Closing presentation with auction & raffle Bacon bap on arrival plus light meal afterwards All team entries to please be directed via CGC Captain Email – agerrard@manx.net tel 07624 490720
Wednesday 4 October 2023 Shotgun start at 10.30 • 18 Hole – PAR Competition
Red tees – maximum Playing Handicap = 36 Players with a higher Playing Handicap are welcome to enter but will be capped at 36 Prize presentation will take place directly after the competition. Visitor entry £30 (includes greenage) Optional lunch available for an additional £15 Enter on www.castletowngolflinks.com or call 01624 822211
The Castletown Golf Links course is not for the fainthearted. To my mind, you couldn’t find a more natural place for a golf course, out on a spit of dry land with the Irish Sea on both sides. Any chance of some respite from the wind? Not on your Nellie. Any chance of a few dramatic holes over the sea? Absolutely.
Here then is the Castletown Golf Links, a course not short of a slice or two of golf history. It was first laid out back in 1892 by none other than the master, Old Tom Morris, architect of St. Andrew’s Old Course, the home of golf. But there is more golfing royalty to follow. In 1910 Alister Mackenzie, the genius behind Augusta National began work on updating the course, followed 30 years later by Philip Mackenzie-Ross creator of Turnberry’s Ailsa course.
You might be baffled as to why a spit of land on a remote island in the Irish Sea would be so attractive to this holy trinity of golfing designers. But during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the Isle of Man was Britain’s equivalent to the French Riviera. Thousands flocked here to holiday and party and Castletown Golf Links was renovated and ready to welcome them all with open arms.