Seve’s Heritage to celebrate and share
IT was right in the middle of the wettest spell of 2004. The American Express World Championship had just ended in a rainstorm, forcing the players to use preferred lies for all four days at Mount Juliet. And they don't come much better than Tim Mahony's jewel in Co Kilkenny.
Yet we played 18 holes over the new Heritage course near Portlaoise four day later and didn't pick up as much as a speck of mud on our shoes. That's a fair indication of the extraordinary groundwork that went into the project before the course designed by Seve Ballesteros and Jeff Howest for Tom Keane at Killenard, Co Laois, opened for play earlier this year. It is probably one of the reasons why it has already attained a stage of maturation that one simply wouldn't have believed possible and why The Heritage is already regarded as one of the finest of the many outstanding developments steadily coming on stream in this country.
