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Gerry Maguire

Chairman of Erris Tourism and Carne Golf Links in Belmullet, Co. Mayo, Ireland; long-time ambassador for the community-built Atlantic links course.

Oct 6, 2026

12:59
Uh, can we go back just a sec? Can you just give us a real brief history of how the course was built? 'Cause it does have a unique story with, uh, you know, no machinery, no everything.
13:07
Yeah.
13:07
Well, I mean, Ballinrobe is a very small town with 2,000 people, 10,000 in the overall area.
13:14
Relatively unknown by anybody, not even in Ireland.
13:17
And, uh, five businesspeople at the time got together and they had a look at the land, which was, uh, being grazed for sheep farming by 12 farmers.
13:28
And they thought it'd be a good idea to, uh, if they could turn that land into a golf course.
13:34
So they set about the, Irish tourism was set up.

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29:03
What do you see? What, what hole are we on, and what do you see? What's, what's that mean that your favorite?

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