Blacklion GC

Est. 1962

Picture includes recently deceased and first Captain of Blacklion Michael O’Dwyer. Pic supplied by Paddy Maguire.

It all started on Whit Monday back in 1962 …

More than hundred golfers gathered on the shores of Lough MacNean on Whit Monday, back in 1962.

Cecil Ewing, one of Ireland’s most prolific amateur golfers and a native of Rosses Point, Sligo, was at hand to hit the first tee shot and officially open the newly formed Blacklion Golf Club.

The returned Irish American link is huge with Blacklion with Dann McCann returning from Newark, NJ in US uniform via Africa. He finally settled in Blacklion in 1954. He always had and idea of a golf course as tourist attraction and Blacklion, bordered by the MacNean lakes and overlooked by the Dough Tur Mountains on the one side and the distant view of the Cuilcagh Mountain on the other side.

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