The course, which is located two miles west of Bandon boasts a wonderful variety of wild life and recently headed the Golf Ecology Unit as the course with greatest number of bird species in Ireland. No golfing holiday in West Cork would be complete without a visit to this haven of solitude.

There is some confusion as to the foundation date of Bandon Golf Club. Either way, it is no doubt that it is one of the oldest Clubs in Munster. The Golfing Annual, 1896-97, gives September 1893, as its foundation date. The same publication, 1909-10, gives 1st January 1910, as the foundation date with J. J. Calnan, as Captain. The Sportsman's Holiday Guide, 1897, gives the following description; "course within the demesne of Castle Bernard, Lord Bandon's beautiful place in Co. Cork. The green, which is a nine-hole one, is about one-and-a-half-miles round. The course where it is, is more or less a private one and supported locally. Secretary, L. Hewitt Esq., J. P. Clancole, Bandon."

Bandon Golf Club were Runners-Up to Killarney in the Munster Finals of the Irish Junior Cup in 2002. The team was Dave Long, Adrian O'Donovan, Mike Murphy, Patrick McCarthy, Denis O'Brien, Stuart Sherratt, Trevor O'Donoghue and Billy McGarry. They were, managed by Tony Healy.

The Girls' from Bandon Golf Club won the "Girls' Smurfit Inter-Club" National competition at Donaghadee Golf Club on the 20th August 2001. The team was Alison Kingston, Kate Davis and Liz Brennan and Susan O'Leary was the reserve. The team brought back the first green pendant in the history of Mallow Golf Club.

Alison Kingston was selected for the Munster Girls' team for the Smurfit Interprovincial Championship at Enniscrone Golf Club from the 18th to the 20th of April 2001.

M. Minihan was elected to the council of the Munster Branch of the GUI for 2001.

Bandon Golf Club won the Munster Final of the Barton Shield in 1978, when the team was Finbar Hayes, Donal O'Donovan, Jerry Mehigan and Michael Stafford.

They won the Munster Final of the Pierce Purcell Shield in 1988, when the team was Pat Bohane, Sean Caughlan, Joe Hudson, Mick O'Neill, Connie Waugh, Raymond Tobin, Norman Noonan, Tin Ellard, Barry O'Neill, Jim Brennan, Dave Mahon, Tim Noonan, Richard Pratt, Gene Hannagan, Brendan O'Neill and Louis O'Mahony.

They won the Munster Final of the Jimmy Bruen Shield in 1989, when the team was N. Noonan, N. Mills, P. J. Flynn, T. N. Coakley, J. Carroll Jnr., J. O'Riordan, O. Murphy, D. O'Brien, J. Minihane, C. Tobin, J. Byrns, J. O'Sullivan, M. Tobin and J. O'Leary.

They won the Munster Final of the Irish Mixed Foursomes in 1987, when the team was, Paul Sweeney, John Carroll, Jerry Mehigan, Finbarr Hayes, P. J. Flynn, Kevin Brophy, Mark Kehoe, Michael Tobin, Jim Slattery, Ann Brophy, Noelle Twomey, Elma O'Brien, Eileen McSweeney, Mary O'Mahoney, Kay Papazian, Margaret Carroll, Maureen Nott.

They won it again in 1988, when the team was John Carroll, P. J. Flynn, Mark Kooge, Jerry Mehigan, Denis O'Brien, Michael Stafford, Elma O'Brien, Noelle Twomey, Eileen McSweeney, Margaret O'Sullivan, Mary O'Mahony, Carmol O'Driscoll, Ann Leonard, Margaret Carroll and Ann Brophy, they were captained by C. K. Hall.

The ladies of Bandon Golf Club won the ILGU Junior Cup1994, when the team was Lucy O'Mahony, Helen O'Brien and Ellen Tobin.

They won it again in 2000, when the team was, Helen O'Leary, Margaret Sheehan and June Murphy.

They won the ILGU Munster Intermediate League in 1980, when the team was Margo Murphy, Bunny Glancy, Margaret Carroll, Eileen McSweeney, Carmel O'Driscoll and Mary O'Mahony.

They won it again in 1987, when the team was C. O'Driscoll, M. O'Mahony, A. Brophy, N. Twomey, S. McGrath, K. Papazian, M. Walsh, M. Carroll and E. McSweeney.

They won the ILGU Munster Minor League in 1986, when the team was Martha Hall, Vera Philpott, Margaret O'Sullivan, Mary Cagney, Irene Noonan, Nuala O'Donoghue and Sheila O'Dea.

They won it again in 1994, when the team was Lucy O'Mahony, Rose Lynch, Eileen Coleman, Angela Barrett, Teresa Walsh, Teresa O'Halloran and Freda McClement.

K. Davis and A. Kingston were selected on the ILGU Junior squad in November 2000.

Ian Stafford represented Ireland in the Boys' Home Internationals at Conwy G. C., Wales, in August, 1999, and played Munster Boys' in 1999 and 1998.

Sean Conroy will remember his 17th birthday when he beat Terry McMahon of Muskerry on the 17th in the final of the Cork Inter. Scratch Cup Matchplay, on his home course.

Kieran Hurley played Munster Boys' in 1993.

Rhona Hegarty, now an Irish Selector, played for the Irish Girls' in 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1976, and she won the Irish Girls' Close Championship in 1974.