Hogs Head Golf Club (13A)

Overview: Hogs Head Golf Club ~ 13A is the directory’s exact routing for the Hogs Head course outside Waterville on the Iveragh Peninsula. The current operator describes an 18-hole, par 72 course of about 7,155 yards, built across a dramatic coastal site where the holes move between the Finglas River and high ground above the Atlantic. The layout uses cliffs, exposed grassland and sheltered inland ground in alternating moods. The 13A label is retained because current routing evidence identifies that combination, while the separate 13B directory record was not verified.

History: Hogs Head was designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr’s RTJ II practice and completed in 2017. The operator describes it as the firm’s first original course design in Ireland. The routing includes holes along roughly 100-foot coastal bluffs, a river-side opening stretch and a downhill par five finishing hole. The course’s story is therefore a modern Irish coastal project that deliberately works with indigenous fescue, cliffs and river land rather than imposing a uniform resort template.

Did You Know? The course includes five par threes and an especially distinctive Biarritz-style green. Its architecture also uses a strong contrast between the first holes along the Finglas River and the later holes on the coastal bluffs. That change in landform is the central design idea: the round does not simply trace the shoreline, it alternates between river, cliff and open peninsula terrain.