Golf links designer has drawn golf’s greats to his Brittas Bay course over the years but now his €35 million masterpiece is up for sale Pat Ruddy speaks about selling The European Club and his favourite memories Pat Ruddy has spent 37 years turning wild dunes on the edge of Brittas Bay into what is arguably the greatest piece of creativity ever produced by a golf writer: the beautiful and quite unique links he christened The European Club. Doing justice to this larger-than-life man – born in Mayo and raised in Sligo – is a near impossible task. He is the living embodiment of a game that’s liable to turn a man or woman insane.
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