Dooks Golf Club is located only 3 miles from the Towers Hotel.. Golf has been played in Dooks since 1889. It was introduced to the local aristocracy by officers from the Royal Horse Artillery attending compulsory training at the nearby Glenbeigh Artillery Range.
The golf course is set out on one of three stretches of sand dunes at the head of Dingle Bay. In the immediate foreground are the sand dune peninsulas of Rossbeigh and Inch and just a few miles away the whitewashed houses of Cromane fishing village provide an eye catching distraction. South eastwards are the famed McGillycuddy's Reeks, to the southwest are the lovely cooms and hills of Glenbeigh and across the bay to the north are the Slieve Mish and Dingle mountains.

And so far the golfer who is seeking a beautiful and tranquil environment to enjoy good golf. Dooks presents a convincing case. Hole number 13 best illustrates the charm and magic of Dooks. It is a throw back hole to the time when golf began. Greens lay where they fell and were better for it.

Dooks Golf Course is one of its few remaining habitats of the natterjack toad. Adult toads are seldom seen by golfers as they are nocturnal.

 About March they emerge from hibernation, such as burrows they have dug in sand banks with their short powerful limbs the previous late Autumn.The toad has a dry dull bumpy looking skin, olive green in colour and yellow-orange-red spots on its back, and a distinctive yellow stripe alone the spine. The hind legs are shorter and less muscular and it normally crawls, though it may hop a little when it's startled. The club and its members are proud and pleased to help in the preservation of this little animal and its habitat.

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