Carton House ( O ’ Meara )
The Carton House Resort is all about luxury . A grand hotel is the centrepiece and two golf courses sweep away from the astoundingly alluring 18th century building . The O ’ Meara course has those perfect parkland assets familiar to everyone as it rolls through mature woodland . And yet the trees stay well back to give the course an unexpected spaciousness . Off the tee the big manicured fairways are hugely inviting targets , making this long course a driver ’ s delight . There are five par fives , too . Bunkers threaten along fairways and this threat increases exponentially on approaches to the immaculately presented greens . The O ’ Meara is often lauded for its superb stretch of three holes down by the River Rye . The two par threes and the par five 15th squeezed in between are exceptional holes , lost amongst the trees . Water is ever-present and it ’ s little wonder they are so memorable . ( The cottage beside the 16th tee was once lived in by Marianne Faithful .)
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