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- 8 reviews of Shannonside House B&B in Athlone
Golfing Athlone & district boasts a wide variety of golf courses within a short driving distance with four magnificent courses in the immediate vicinity:
Glasson Golf & Country Club,
Mount Temple Championship Course,
Athlone Golf Club and Moate Golf Club, each with its own attributes.
The Midlands have become a "Golfers Paradise", ideal for golfing reunions, society outings or simply a game of golf on a new course. If you have not sampled "The Glasson Experience" you have not lived! A Christy O'Connor Jnr.-designed masterpiece that has all the golfers talking. Surrounded on three sides by Lough Ree, every hole is breathtaking and offers the golfer a unique and different view. Measuring 7,210 yards from the championship tees, it is a true test for all golfing standards.
Mount Temple is a Championship Course traditionally built on a unique, dry, natural site affording the golfer park land and west Ireland features unusual to the Midlands region. This par 71 course is playable all year round and measures 6,750 yards from the back tees.