Set in the beautiful green countryside of the South East, Carlow Golf Club is an 18-hole parkland course laid out in a former wild deer park. The course has a sandy subsoil, which is links-like with undulating terrain, numerous elevated trees, several excellent doglegs and small slick putting surfaces. Carlow is playable 12 months of the year and a plugged ball is virtually unheard of. Its qualities are further enhanced by the water hazards at the first, second, 10th and 11th. There are many long par-fours and the 16th, a very demanding two shotter, played through a tunnel-like valley, has been noted by Christy O'Connor Senior, as the best 16th hole in Ireland.