Castlewarden golf club Kildare

Members Achievements

Lauren Walsh was, selected on the 2023 Golf Ireland Women’s High Performance Squad.

Lauren Walsh was selected to play on the 2022 GB&Ireland Curtis Cup at the Merion Golf Club East Course from the 10th to the 12th June. Well done Lauren.

Castlewarden Golf Club won the Leinster Final of the Pierce Purcell Shield when they beat Clontarf Golf Club at Glen-of-The-Downs in 2202 and were drawn against Ulster Champions Moyola Park in the All-Ireland Semi-Finals at Galway Golf Club on September 5th. The team was Johnny Murray, Esmond Butler, Brian Deereux, Stuart Callery, Des O'Neill, Brad Flynn, Declan Bolger, Colm Kellett, Andrew Birthwistle, Andy Callanan, Noel Walsh, John Beirne, Fintan King, Paul Whelan and Brendan McCann. They were managed by Barney McCann and Tom Whelan. The team on the day was Esmond Butler with Declan Bolger, Colm Kellett with Noel Walsh, Stuart Callery with Andrew Bithistle, Brad Flynn with Des O'Neill and John Murray with Brian Devereux. 

The Ladies of Castlewarden Golf Club won the ILGU Eastern District Autumn Team Trophy in 1995, when the team was, P. Flynn, S. O'Donoghue, A. Brennan, J. Tyrrell, P. Sullivan, D. Hanlon and they were captained by M. O'Carroll.

Husband and wife Brigid (25) and Brendan Foran (12), were leading qualifiers, in the Spar-Irish Independent National Mixed Pairs at the South County Golf Club in July 2002. When they shot 49 points to lead the field by 3 points.

J. Ferriter was elected to the council of the Leinster Branch of the GUI for 201

Joan Byrne won the Millennium Lady Captain's Prize, which was also the 10th anniversary of the founding of the club. Joan, had rounds of 73 and 69 to win by two shots from Gilly Hughes.

History of Castlewarden

Founded 1990

The original course design in 1990 was the work of well-known professional and course designer Tommy Halpin. For several reasons, including a desire to bring the course into play in the shortest possible time, all of the original greens were developed from the indigenous turf. Although the quality of these greens was brought to a high standard by appropriate, sanding, aeration and feeding, most of them have since been replaced by USGA specification (sand based) greens during  the subsequent course development projects. 

In 1993, Bobby Browne was commissioned to re-design the course. This design included two new holes – what are now the 2^nd and 3^rd holes. It was also at this time that the transition to sand-based greens was initiated. 

In 1995, the late Tom Craddock, a highly regarded course architect, was invited to examine the course and make design recommendations. Today’s course is, to a very large extent, a manifestation of recommendations made by Tom Craddock at that time.   

In more recent years, the design services of Tommy Halpin were enlisted for some improvement projects relating to modification of some greens, tee boxes and the re-alignment of fairways.  

Because of our soil type and topography poor drainage was a problem in some sectors during the early years. These initial problems have been resolved by installing an extensive (20km) sand slit-based drainage system so that the fairways in the Castlewarden course are virtually rainproof

Over the past twenty years several thousand trees have been planted and Castlewarden today boasts an enviable selection of native and exotic tree species. The course today bears little resemblance to the original design and members now enjoy a 6704 yards, par 72 Golf Course that is of Championship standard.

New clubhouse extension completed 2003.