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Ballinasloe Golf Club sits in one of the most quietly underrated corners of the Irish midlands, a town that straddles the River Suck on the Galway-Roscommon border and has been a crossroads of Irish life for centuries. The surrounding landscape is low and open — boggy pastureland giving way to the flat plains that define this stretch of Connacht — and that terrain shapes the golf in ways no scorecard entry can capture. Wind is not an occasional factor here; it is a permanent co-designer, capable of turning a routine par 4 into something altogether more demanding.
Members' clubs of this type are the backbone of Irish golf: modest in ambition, rich in community, and often more enjoyable to play than their regional obscurity suggests. Visitors are typically welcomed with the easy hospitality that characterizes clubs outside the main tourist corridors, where the game still revolves around the membership rather than the tee-sheet.
Ballinasloe is also famous throughout Ireland for its annual October horse fair, one of the oldest in Europe, a detail that tells you something about the character of the place — traditional, unpretentious, and genuinely Irish.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue (1-2, 9-10, 14-18) · men | 6,496 | 71.8 | 118 | 72 |
| Blue · men | 6,434 | 71.4 | 120 | 72 |
| Yellow · men | 6,209 | 70.4 | 118 | 72 |
| Green · men | 5,957 | 69 | 116 | 72 |
| Red (1-2, 9-10, 14-18) · women | 5,648 | 73.4 | 123 | 74 |
| Red · women | 5,376 | 71.3 | 126 | 73 |
| Blue (1-6, 16-18) · men | 3,229 | 35.8 | 116 | 36 |
| Green (1-6, 16-18) · men | 2,990 | 34.6 | 111 | 36 |
| Red (1-6,16-18) · women | 2,740 | 35.6 | 130 | 37 |
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