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Leopardstown Golf Club. Leopardstown Racecourse. (1891)
Evidence of a short lived Leopardstown Golf Club laid out on the Racecourse in 1891.
Nearby Foxrock Golf Club was founded in 1893 and is still going strong.
The Leopardstown Golf Centre on the Racecourse came into being in the 1960s.
Below are reports on the history of golf in Ireland, including an early Leopardstown Golf Club.
From Sport (Dublin) Saturday 18 July 1891; “The first golfing tournament over the newly laid-out Leopardstown Links will take place on the 28th of the present month.”
Sport (Dublin) Saturday 18 July 1891. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Opening of the course in July 1891.
Freeman’s Journal Monday 27 July 1891. Public domain.