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Fergal O'Leary
Fergal hails from Dublin but lives in Boston. He’s a self-confessed golf course addict, who completed playing the Top 100 ranked courses in the United States in just 4 years at 28 years of age.
In August 2015, aged 32, Fergal became the youngest person and the first Irishman to play the World Top 100 ranked courses. He has a +1 handicap and is a proud member of Portmarnock Golf Club.
While the back nine at Victoria Golf Club has possibly the greatest collection of holes in the Sandbelt, it is sometimes let down by conditioning, especially on the green...
I developed a deeper love for Kingston Heath on this trip and was fortunate to play it on three occasions with various Pennant (interclub team scratch match play competit...
Royal Melbourne (West) continues to be number one in the Australian rankings. This is due to the fabulous piece of land the holes sit on, but more so the genius of the gr...
The Mornington Peninsula is yet another example of a top golfing location in Australia, let alone the greater Melbourne area. Golfers have plenty of enjoyable, fun and ac...
The first of the 3 courses at the National Golf Club with a distinctive look and feel. This RTJ Junior layout from 1985 is considerably different from the Moonah course a...
Kingston Heath gets its well-deserved high ranking due to superior design variety with short and long par fours and a wonderful collection of globally celebrated par thre...
Attention to detail and conditioning at “Metro” is second to none, I even heard that some of the green-side bunkers have their edges hand-cut with a scissors! To help you...
I was fortunate to play the West course a few times on my trip and I appreciated new aspects and nuances each time I played it. It’s a never-ending education. These green...
Alex Russell leveraged the philosophies of Alister MacKenzie’s West course during the creation of the East course. Holes 1-4 and 16-18 are part of the composite course an...
If somebody told me that the back nine at Victoria would be the most impressive nine holes I would play in Melbourne, I’m not sure I would have believed them. Right from...
Huntingdale was home to the ‘Australian Masters’ tournament for 30 years between 1979 and 2008. It borders the Metropolitan Golf Club, but looks and feels very different....
Standing on the first tee offers a magnificent view of the mown grass between the 1st and 18th holes. The short opening hole is mobbed with iconic Sandbelt bunkers, and a...
A golf course that doesn’t get a lot of attention due to its flat terrain and collection of straightforward holes that don’t offer much of a challenge. The greens on the...
The opening hole is a par three which (visually) doesn’t fit with how the others are designed, which is not something you say very often in the Sandbelt. The 2nd hole had...