Thurles Golf Club

Irish sports enthusiasts will know that Thurles was where the Gaelic Athletic Association was formed in 1884 – the town’s 53,000-capacity Semple Stadium is the second largest GAA stadium in the country after Croke Park – and the town remains a hotbed for traditional Irish games like Gaelic football and hurling. What many may not know is that Thurles Golf Club was formed twenty five years after the GAA in 1909 and, in the early years of its formation,…