Editing Limerick (section)

===Golf===
There are three golf clubs associated with Limerick city. [[Limerick Golf Club]] was founded in 1891 and is located at Ballyclough, {{convert|5|km|0}} due south of the city centre. Castletroy Golf Club was founded in 1937 and is located in the suburb of Castletroy in the southwest of the city. Rathbane Golf Club is based at Rathbane Golf Course, a municipal facility opened in 1998 on the southern outskirts of the city and operated under a licence for Limerick City Council. Limerick has won the Irish Senior Cup, the blue riband event of Irish amateur golf, on four occasions and was the first Irish club to win the European Club Championship, in 1980.<ref>Cotter, Patrick J., ''A History of Limerick Golf Club, 1891 – 1991'', 1991, The Treaty Press.</ref> Castletroy has won the Irish Senior Cup once.

Limerick Golf Club was host to the JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am, one of the largest [[pro-am]] events of its kind in the world. It has contributed over €95m to local charities since its inception in 1990.<ref>[http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0211/1224289523496.html ''JP McManus named Limerick Person of the Year for 2010''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222191039/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0211/1224289523496.html |date=22 February 2011 }}, The Irish Times, 11 February 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.</ref> The event moved to the larger [[Adare Golf Club]] in 2005 as it had outgrown the Ballyclough venue.<ref>[http://www.jpmcmanusproam.com/tournament-information/overview.html ''Tournament History''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713121838/http://www.jpmcmanusproam.com/tournament-information/overview.html |date=13 July 2011 }}, JP McManus Invitational Pro Am. Retrieved 8 March 2011.</ref> Adare also played host to the [[Irish Open (golf)|Irish Open]] in 2007 and 2008.