Esker Hills Golf Club

Esker Hills is the only inland links type course which makes golf a pleasure all year round." The end result was the moulding of the striking original landscape of plateaus, sweeping valleys and natural lakes into one of the finest parkland tests around.

Esker Hills Golf & Country Club is one of those newly urbanized parkland golf courses that have put the Irish midlands firmly on the map in golfing terms. Interminably, it seemed the midlands were often ignored as a place to enjoy great golf but with the adding up of modern courses like Glasson Golf & Country Club and Esker Hills to established mature golf courses.



Esker Hills' links like landscape is somewhat baffling given it is located nowhere near the ocean but can be traced back over 10,000 years, when the unique landscape of County Offaly was strongly shaped by the overwhelming natural forces of the receding Ice Age.



Esker Hills is a real parkland gem where no two holes are even remotely alike. This is true even of the 307 yard, tenth another one of those attractive "par three and a half" holes, which can promise much and deliver quite something else.

No two holes are remotely alike providing the golfer with a hugely satisfying golf experience. Indeed, it is more a course for brain than muscles as water features and sand traps added to the natural land put a quality on good course management rather than length.



If you bail out left then trees and a strategically placed bunker make getting close almost impossible. Driver or mid- iron, that is the question!

Apart from these four short gems, the golfer enjoys a mix of holes set in beautifully natural surroundings.

The course offers every sort of challenge in the golfing sense. It had variety of scenery, unexpected discoveries and, above all, excellent greens. The course and staff deserve the highest commendation.

Spend some time here exploring the ultimate golfing test - its well worth the effort!