Sq m 184 (2,000sq ft)

THE culinary choices facing US President Richard Nixon that October night in Kilfrush House, Co Limerick, were not confined to whether he wished to have his Waterville potatoes boiled or baked.

SOME visits everybody remembers. John F Kennedy in 1963, Pope John Paul II in 1979. However, sandwiched in between those was the visit few remember, that of the 37th President of the United States of American, Richard Milhous Nixon.

AGAINST the backdrop of the forthcoming inauguration of Barrack Obama as the first African-American president of the US, the controversy over South Africa’s participation in the World Cup of Golf at Waterville in July 1978 is a reminder of how much things have changed in 30 years.

TOM FAZIO, the celebrated golf course architect responsible for ‘Tiger-Proofing’ Augusta, is the man behind the major changes being made to the great Waterville links.