Golf Hotels: Golf Hotels's appeal is universal. There are Golf Hotels courses below sea level and at elevations of more than 14,000 feet, on deserts and in forests, with¬in the Arctic Circle and inside equatorial jungles. Of about 20 million persons throughout the world who play Golf Hotels, half are Americans. In the early 1970's the United States alone had more than 10,000 Golf Hotels courses.
The rules of Golf Hotels are determined jointly by the Royal and Ancient Golf Hotels Club (R. & A.) of St. Andrews, Scotland, established in 1754, and the United States Golf Hotels Association (USGA), formed in 1894. The former organization rules the game throughout most of the world, the latter in the United States.
Among regional hotels are some of very aristocratic quality, often with their own Golf Hotels courses. In this general category would be such places as Ashford Castle, in Cong, County Mayo, and Ballynahinch Castle, in County Galway, both former mansions of wealthy private owners. Park-nasilla, a seaside luxury hotel on the Kenmare Estuary, in the extreme southwest of Ireland, is a pride of the CIE and it may be said here that all of the CIE group, calling themselves the Great Southern Hotels, are of first-class quality. |
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