Pat Ruddy, the renowned golf course architect, has put the European Club at Brittas Bay on the market for €35 million. According to Golf Digest, Ruddy has designed nine of the top 40 courses in Ireland and the European Club regularly features in world’s top 100 list.
The Co Wicklow track, where Tiger Woods holds the course record of 67 strokes, has just over 80 members. “This gives a new owner the choice of remaining private, going ultra-private or maximising commercial golf traffic through world visitor play and an enlarged membership,” Sotheby’s, the selling agent, says in its brochure. According to Irishgolfdesk.com, Ruddy’s wish is for a new wealthy owner to treat his life’s dream as “a work of art”.
The 79-year-old Mayo man, who