{"id":351,"date":"2011-07-14T09:27:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomharack.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2013-03-26T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T13:53:10","slug":"dreamingofwheretheirishplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/golf\/351\/dreamingofwheretheirishplay","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming Of Where The Irish Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Carly Simon noted in the eponymous song, <em>anticipation<\/em> can be a two-edged thing, combining, as it does, excitement for an upcoming event with the potential for a letdown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See here, though, Carly was talking about going on a <em>date<\/em>, for Pete\u2019s sake. The object of my nearly drooling anticipation is a ten-day golf trip, beginning next week, to the northwest quadrant of Ireland. Remote and underutilized relative to the Emerald Isle\u2019s better-known venues, it\u2019s known as the place the Irish go to play golf.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The names of the courses alone are enough to stir intrigue: Ballyliffen, Rosapenna, Narin &amp; Portnoo (one course), Rosapenna, Enniscrone, Donegal, Carne. But unlike the three A Position colleagues who will be along, this will be a return visit for me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thus do I already know that we\u2019ll cover some of the wildest, least tamed, most exotic golf terrain anywhere. Much of it is also extremely difficult to play, particularly in wind and rain. Famous last words, perhaps, but even an utterly inept round \u2013 the usual downside attached to extreme golf-experience anticipation \u2013 can\u2019t dampen the thrill of playing in a destination like this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnticipation\u201d remains a classic 1970s hit, but it\u2019s a good bet that Carly Simon never teed it up at Rosapenna\u2019s Sandy Hills Links. It\u2019s the single toughest course I\u2019ve ever played; still, I can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Carly Simon noted in the eponymous song, anticipation can be a two-edged thing, combining, as it does, excitement for&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/golf\/351\/dreamingofwheretheirishplay\" title=\"ReadDreaming Of Where The Irish Play\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,5353,39217,17],"tags":[414,449,915,90369,43518,783785,6218,6217],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf","category-tourism-ireland","category-golf-road-warriors","category-courses-and-travel","tag-ireland","tag-rosapenna","tag-donegal","tag-narin-portnoo","tag-enniscrone","tag-carly-simon","tag-ballyliffen","tag-carne"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}