Bodenstown Golf Club (Ladyhill)

Overview: Bodenstown Golf Club ~ Ladyhill is the shorter of the two full 18-hole courses at the Bodenstown complex near Sallins in County Kildare. It is a tree-lined parkland course with open fairways, raised greens and views toward the Dublin and Wicklow mountains. Current scorecard material lists Ladyhill at par 72 and about 6,188 yards from the blue tees, while other published cards use a 5,618-metre championship length. The directory routing is therefore kept distinct from the original Bodenstown course rather than treated as a generic second nine.

History: Bodenstown began with an 18-hole course in 1973 and expanded with the Ladyhill course in the 1980s. The course is associated with the Mather family and with Eddie Hackett’s Irish design tradition; current directory material also credits Richard Mather. The result is a two-course parkland complex that grew through local ownership, not a modern hotel-resort project. Exact commissioning details for the Ladyhill layout are not stated consistently, so the profile uses the documented 1983 expansion marker conservatively.

Did You Know? Ladyhill’s name comes from the terrain and the course’s elevated outlook, not from a separate town or resort. The two Bodenstown courses sit together, but the published cards show different lengths and routing characteristics. Keeping the Ladyhill label in the title helps players and search systems distinguish this 18-hole course from Bodenstown’s longer original layout.