we played on a typical Irish golf day...mixture of sideways rain, knock you down wind and warm sun all in 18 holes!

Haha...when you play in Ireland you learn to play the elements, and from that day you are never bothered by them again.

I played Tralee (a great course in its own right) in a driving rain....(it's not like we could get a rain check and play another day). I can't remember much about the course bacause I saw it thru rain covered/fogged glasses.

At Old Head, I had a tap in birdie on their signature hole....a 540 yard plus par 5 whose left "rough" and O.B. is 200 feet straight down into the Atlantic. I reached the green in 2 aided by a 50 knot tailwind. Same course, coming back against the wind, I used a driver and came up just short on a 160yd par3 ....shot from an elevated tee DOWN to a green across a chasm. My caddy told me to put my iron away and get my Driver...I looked at him in disbelief LOL....good call.