This is pure luxury in combination with a couple of Europe’s best golf courts, both designed by the living golf legend Arnold Palmer. And it was here the worlds most prestigious golf tournament was arranged – The Ryder Cup 2006.

The whole hotel with the 69 rooms is held in a classic British style. It looks like a gigantic home, with one living room after another. Beautiful fire places, lovely furniture and fantastic art. The owner of Dr. Michael Smurfit has Ireland’s largest private collections paintings from the Irish artist Jack B. Yeates. Everything is put together to a warm and cosy atmosphere.

The river Liffey is running around the hotel and all the way to Dublin. If you cross the river you get to the Smurfit Course Club house.

Smurfit Course

The Smurfit course is kept as a nature court where the rough mostly grows freely. And it often rain in Ireland, which makes this a tough course. You don’t get anything free here, not even a half a meter roll!

Palmer Course

Palmer Course is totally different from Smurfit Course. A fantastic, beautiful and stunning park course, surrounded by oak trees and lots of rough where you can actually find your balls. The club house is a food drive from the hotel, and there is the fantastic restaurant The Legend and all golf facilities including a snack restaurant and an agreeable pro shop.

The Irish rain

Michael Smurfit has been planning everything thinking of the Ryder Cup for years, and when he finally got the arrangement he increased. Here the employees have really made an effort to present a perfect golf course in the Ryder Cup. Unfortunately it rained significantly during the entire tournament, but that didn’t affect neither the players nor the course, which is perfectly drained.

Useful information

Great flew to Dublin in Ireland with SAS, five flights a week. From Norway you can also fly daily with Ryanair from Torp airport. The flight takes about two hours and it is half an hour drive from the airport to the K Club.

The K Club is an exclusive hotel with only 69 rooms. This year they have two offers, one winter offer which includes two nights in a Superior room with Irish breakfast, dinner and one round of golf on both fields for about 4.500Nok. and an equivalent summer offer for about 8.000Nok. Contact Tourism Ireland in Copenhagen for more information. Telephone: 800 35 018 or visit www.dicoverireland.com. You can also read about K Club at www.kclub.ie