Ryder Cup tickets with purchase

IT might be a bit extreme, but are there some mad Celtic Tiger types out there prepared to pay €2 million for the sake of a Ryder Cup ticket?

There might be when tickets are making €15,000 on the black market and you get one free with every purchase at the Ladycastle scheme in the uber-exclusive K-club. Ideal for the cash-rich, golf-poor purchaser.

John Bosco French of French Estates, the man behind the high-end, Ladycastle development at Straffan resort, says there are two free memberships on offer per house, and at €120,000 each are rather a draw too, he says.

He’s selling a range of house types on an eight-acre site, alongside the Smurfit course and not surprisingly, prices start at €1,100,000 — that’s just for the two-bed apartment. Mind you, most of the units come kitted out to a very high, almost Gulf States, standard so moving in is a cinch, just the keys and the clubs are needed. And then, there’s the next step up, the smaller house type, the Fannyn, which at 2,200 square feet is a good size and works out at a €1,000 per square foot.

One up from that again is the Tyrconnell, a 3,425 sq ft house priced at €2,750,000, and finally, there’s the last and ‘exceptionally appointed’, 3,800 square foot Smurfit, a colonial-style whopper which comes in at around at €3,500,000.

Ladycastle — why not call it Status Anxiety Drive?

Show units are open for viewing by appointment only on Friday, May 5, Saturday, May 6 and Sunday, May 7, from 12-4pm.