{"id":2830,"date":"2020-06-22T18:35:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2020-11-21T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T11:48:15","slug":"club-choice-chats-to-the-island-golf-club-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/blog\/2020\/06\/22\/club-choice-chats-to-the-island-golf-club-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Choice Chats to&#8230; The Island Golf Club, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to part two of our chat with David Costigan, Head PGA Professional at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/blog\/golf_clubs\/the-island-golf-club\/\">The Island Golf Club<\/a> in North County Dublin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Bri1nBlvUhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6088 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cc-chats-island2-video.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David gets into more depth on the unique features that make the course a true &#8216;shot makers&#8217; paradise. We discuss the Back 9 and it&#8217;s many memorable holes and David drops a few names of top golfers who have played the course as part of their preparation for The Open.<\/p>\n<p>We also hear out about the historic hosting, along with Portmarnock Golf Club, of the 2019 Amateur Championship and how the course fared against some of the worlds best amateur golfers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6091 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cc-chats-island2-dj-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Island GC has long been one of the official Open qualifier courses and has played host to many a world class tour player looking to get some final prep before The Open.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6089 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cc-chats-island2-sugrue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In June 2019 the Amateur Championship was played across two courses, The Island GC and Portmarnock GC, and was ultimately won by Irishman James Sugrue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To book your golfing break to The Island Golf Club, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">get in touch today<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to part two of our chat with David Costigan, Head PGA Professional at The Island Golf Club in North County Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clubchoiceireland.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}