Golf Courses - SW 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...

‘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...

‘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 ...

Surrounded by massive cliffs and crashing seas, the extraordinary Old Head Golf Links is built atop an ancient sandstone Promontory, known as the Old Head of Kinsale, which protrudes out from Irela...

Although first formed within the town of Tralee in 1896, the Tralee Golf Club now plays on a course built in 1984 and situated along the Kerry coastline at nearby Barrow. Designed by Arnold Palmer ...

Golf has been played in Dooks since 1889, which makes the course one of the oldest in Ireland.  Originally named Dooks & Caragh GC, it was nine quirky holes for the best part of 90 years until exte...

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

“It is fair to wonder why a visitor to Ireland should waste any time on a non-links course, and with so many ...

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

“It is fair to wonder why a visitor to Ireland should waste any time on a non-links course, and with so many ...

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

“If you’re looking for a posh manor house hotel to stay at, you won’t go wrong at Adare, on the road from Sh...