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GOLF LARRY & TIERNAN BYRNE

CLUB CHOICE IRELAND

From traditional links to As a golf destination, this country son Larry and
parkland, country club to heart- is favoured by golfers from the Tiernan Byrne,
of-town, golf in Wexford offers a likes of the United States, the far Club Choice
choice and variety that is hard to east, continental Europe and the Ireland is now
match anywhere. Even in Ireland, United Kingdom, all of whom love in its fourth year
which has carved out a reputation the variety and excellence of the of business in its
over the last decade or so as a courses. current structure
“golfer’s paradise”, it’s hard to None more so than in Wexford, and is enjoying healthy growth in
trump the offering that Wexford where the long coastline has lent its enterprise of selling Ireland as a
can come up with for the golf itself ideally to links golf while, haven for golfers to the UK market.
enthusiast.
inland, parkland courses have But complacency is not welcome
And all sorts of abilities and sprung up on some of the best earth here and they are already looking
interests are catered for in the region has to offer. towards expanding into the French
Wexford; from the scratch player and lucrative US markets in the
to the holidaymaker, the medium- CLUB CHOICE IRELAND coming years to ensure that the
handicapper to occasional weekend Ireland likes to promote itself as region, with Wexford at its heart,
golfer, you’ll find a course and a golf destination, a place where continues to trade on a reputation
ABOVE: layout right up your alley in this tourists and enthusiasts can play for first-class golf, hospitality and
St. Helen’s Bay corner of Ireland. value.
Golf Resort a couple of rounds on some of the
Of course Ireland and its climate world’s most renowned courses and You could say that golf tourism is
are traditionally favourable to the enjoy our famous hospitality. in the company’s blood. Larry has
development of high-quality golf But how to ensure that those visitors been well-known and respected
courses. We do get quite an amount come back, that they tell their in the region for decades as, with
of rain at certain times of the year, friends, that we don’t rest on our his wife Mari, the founder of the
but allied with a decent level of laurels and assume that this niche fantastic St Helen’s Bay Golf Resort
sunshine in the spring, summer and of our tourism “offering” will look outside Rosslare which the family
even early autumn months, this after itself? and partners built up from scratch,
creates the conditions needed for so to speak.
green, lush layouts where the course That’s where Club Choice Ireland “I remember Dad taking me out
architects are helped at all times by comes in. into a field in Rosslare in short
mother nature herself. Founded by Wexford father and

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