Set in the shadow of the famous Wicklow Mountain's, Charlesland Golf Club, designed by Irelands most celebrated and prolific course designer the late Eddie Hackett, designer of legendary links courses Waterville, Connemara, Murvagh and Enniscrone, has always been known as a challenging but fair test of golf, in a beautiful setting.
Born in a Dublin pub in 1910, twelve years before Irish independence, Hackett survived a Dickensian childhood of periodic penury and grave illness (he spent long stretches in hospital with tuberculosis). One of the brighter moments of his youth came the day his father announced proudly that he had become one of the first Catholic tradesman to be allowed into a golf club in Ireland. Young Eddie took to the game too, the one sport his doctors would allow him to play.
While Eddie was still a teenager, the family fell on hard times and so Hackett was thankful to get a job as a clubmaker at the Royal Dublin Golf Club.
The course, at 6169 metre from the championship tees, skirts the Irish Sea for the best part of the front nine with the home run being true parkland.