Golf Courses - IRELAND

'Lahinch will make the finest and most popular course that I, or I believe anyone else, ever constructed’ Dr Alister MacKenzie. 

A links of unparalleled originality, the Lahinch Golf Club was...

‘The beauty of the terrain surpasses that of any golf course I know, not excepting Pine Valley in America’ Tom Simpson on Ballybunion

Blessed with the most formidable dune structure in Irel...

Covered in low-set dunes and small sandy hollows, the 27-hole Portmarnock Golf Club occupies most of a 500-acre peninsula wedged between the Irish Sea and a tidal inlet to the north of Dublin Bay. ...

Superbly situated at the tip of the Rosses Point Peninsula and less than five miles from the town of Sligo, the largely unheralded County Sligo Golf Club is one of the strongest and most scenic lin...

Unlike the majority of modern golf developers who seek immediate headlines and hefty financial returns with their compromised estate master plans, when Irish writer Pat Ruddy decided to build his o...

‘Everything about Waterville is spectacular, the setting is one of the best I have seen anywhere in golf’ Tom Fazio

As unlikely a combination as extravagant American architect Tom Fazio and a...

‘I am thrilled with the way the dramatic Belmullet Course has turned out and again reiterate my first opinion that ultimately there will be no better links in the country, or, I doubt, anywhere’ Ed...

Located near the historic town of Drogheda and founded in 1892, the County Louth Golf Club is the home of the famous Baltray links, created by architect Tom Simpson in 1938. Simpson's course has be...

In Volume 1 of The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, Tom Doak published that.

“Thanks to some spectacular coastal dunes, Enniscrone is one of the more popular links in this part of Irelan...

‘This is a course I want to be identified with, one I will be able to say with pride - I did that one.' Greg Norman

Stretching along a curving beachfront ridge at Doughmore Bay in the tiny ...