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Carne Golf Links - Review

November 4, 2026 · 39 min

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Our first episode on location. Barry and Sigma played Carne Golf Links in Belmullet, then hid behind a dune to record this.

Is Carne the best golf course in Ireland? How to play it in the wind, why you should forget about your score, how it holds up at the end of October, and what happened to Barry’s putter on the way to the second tee.

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00:00 Cold open
00:27 Live from Carne
02:53 The best course in Ireland?
05:58 Carne vs the big names
07:31 The Wild Atlantic Dunes
10:23 Links golf into November
11:38 The welcome
13:45 Easy to score, easy to shoot 100
15:09 Advice for your first visit
18:23 Forget the score
20:22 Rough you can find your ball in
21:33 Getting round in a buggy
25:07 The Count Back Index
32:00 The broken putter
36:03 Sigma’s 11 drivers
37:19 Send us your courses

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Sigma: @the_creative_sigma

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