{"id":410,"date":"2013-10-01T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golfdigger.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2025-12-01T22:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:59:32","slug":"2nd-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golfdigger.com\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Ireland &#8211; 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first overseas golf trip for us, my wife and I were at an auction in Portland in the spring of 2013. There was a package in the auction called &#8220;Fore in Ireland&#8221;. She suggested lets bid on it so we did and well in September of 2013 off we went on our first trip to Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wife who likes Churches and Castles is really in her happy place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This also was our first experience driving on the opposite side of the road, which in Ireland many of the roads are somewhat narrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Day 1<\/td><td>Arrive Dublin &#8211; via Portland, OR, Chicago<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Guinness Brewery Tour &#8211; Highly encouraged<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Day 2<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kclub.ie\/?srsltid=AfmBOoqmRXV3lNQkYykR2arixKFtxvNUR118DuFICy6xFUI1WvEWAGrW\">The K Club, Kildare<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Day 3<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portmarnockgolfclub.ie\/\">Portmarnock Golf Club<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Day 4<\/td><td>Travel day to Northern Ireland<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Day 5<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/visit\/northern-ireland\/giants-causeway\">Giants Causeway<\/a> &#8211; Very near Royal Portrush<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalportrushgolfclub.com\/\">Royal Portrush<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Day 6<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castlerockgc.co.uk\/\">Castlerock<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Day 7 <\/td><td>Early morning drive back to Dublin and flight back to Paris  for sightseeing.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Day 10<\/td><td>Up early for a flight from Paris to Portland via Chicago. Traveling with Golf Clubs, we explained to the hotel we needed a larger vehicle in the morning to the airport which well was confusing for them as a Mercedes four door sedan shows up.  and a short time later confused lady at check-in asking what that bag is. She had never seen Golf Clubs before.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first overseas golf trip for us, my wife and I were at an auction in Portland in the spring of 2013. There was a package in the auction called &#8220;Fore in Ireland&#8221;. She suggested lets bid on it so we did and well in September of 2013 off we went on our first trip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prior-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/golfdigger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/golfdigger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/golfdigger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfdigger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfdigger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/golfdigger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/golfdigger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfdigger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/golfdigger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfdigger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfdigger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}