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Ballinrobe Golf Club

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The Championship Parkland Golf Course at Ballinrobe Golf Club is considered by some, including Padraig Harrington, to be one of the finest in Ireland.

“This must be the finest championship course in the West of Ireland, The par threes, in particular, are a delight. My favourite hole is the fifth which has a marvellous green inset into the River Robe. The tenth hole is a hole which the professionals will love, with its island green needing a very precise choice of club.” – Padraig Harrington

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Westport Golf Club

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Westport Golf Club is one of Ireland’s finest parkland courses. Located a 5-minute drive from the town, the course is set in the scenic splendour of 260 acres of undulating parklands on the shores of Clew Bay with breath-taking views of Croagh Patrick.

The club boasts floodlit driving range, a two-hole pitching green and putting green, as well as a 9-hole pitch and putt course.

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Donegal Golf Club

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Donegal Golf Club, located on the Murvagh peninsula in South Donegal, welcomes you to a unique golfing experience. The course was originally designed by Eddie Hackett, a legend of Irish golf course architecture, and is often called the Muirfield of Ireland.

Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Donegal Bay and a designated Special Area of Conservation, it is one of the longest golf courses in Europe, measuring a massive 7,453 yards from the championship tees.

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Carne Golf Links

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Carne in North Mayo on the West Coast of Ireland lies in magnificent unspoiled sand dunes overlooking Blacksod Bay and the wild Atlantic Ocean near the town of Belmullet. Discover Erris in North Mayo, an area that is famed the world over for its golf course and white sandy Atlantic beaches that stretch for miles, its bountiful wildlife and warm welcome.

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County Sligo Golf Club

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This world famous golf course in Rosses Point offers an excellent challenge. The traditional links layout, designed by Harry Colt, utilizes the natural contours of the dune-covered landscape rather than moving large amounts of earth during its design. The end result is a course filled with dramatic undulations, elevated tees, and raised plateau greens.

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Enniscrone Golf Club

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Enniscrone is among the finest and most challenging of traditional Irish links golf courses and offers 27 holes on 400 acres of magnificent links land, featuring the par 73 Dunes Championship Links Course. The Dunes is one of Ireland’s top-ranked championship links courses; voted “Best in Connacht” by Golfers Guide to Ireland; repeatedly a top-15 links course in Golf Digest’s review of Irish golf courses and a perennial Top-100 UK course from Golf World.

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The European Club

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The golf course at the European Golf Club typifies exciting links golf; tumbling dunes with dramatic views of the Irish Sea from no fewer than sixteen of the holes.

It features 20 holes (two extra holes are in play most days) of exciting links that takes you around the dunes and tough rough designed to make your round that little bit harder.

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Ardglass Golf Club

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Ardglass Golf Club, home of the world’s oldest clubhouse dating back to 1405AD. Ardglass Golf Course is an 18 hole links course in a natural setting hugging the north-east coast of Ireland, with stunning views, unique golf holes and memorable people. With the almost ever-present wind capable of wreaking havoc from any quarter; the hard fairways and the small firm greens, it is just about impossible to play “yardage based” golf on this links.

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Portmarnock Golf Club

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Considered by many as one of the fairest links courses in the world it delivers an incredible challenge and true test of golf.

There are no tricks or nasty surprises, only an honest, albeit searching test of shot making skills.

Tom Watston

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Baltray – County Louth Golf Club

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Founded in 1892, County Louth Golf Club, or Baltray as it is more commonly known, has established itself as one of Ireland’s finest links courses.

Baltray is probably my favorite links course in Ireland … It’s just a great test. All the holes run in different directions so you have a different exam paper on each hole

Paul McGinley

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The Island Golf Club

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The Island Golf Club, founded in 1890, is a traditional private Members’ golf club with a proud history of upholding the best traditions of amateur golf. the links is located in some of the most stunning dunes on the east coast of Ireland.

It enjoys a growing international reputation and currently hosts Regional Qualifying for The Open Championship.

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Portstewart Golf Club

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A ‘true test of golf’ is a much overused phrase, but in this case it is a reflection of the variety and ingenuity of the shots required to get round this masterpiece of a golf course. The views from almost every hole are quite simply, magical. The Atlantic is never very far away and the beauty of the course has to be seen to be believed. It is a treat that will take a very long time, if ever, to fade from the golfer’s memory. The jewel in the Portstewart crown.

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Castlerock GC – Mussenden Links

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Castlerock is a fabulous links course set among rolling sand dunes. Its scenic qualities embrace the River Bann flowing out to the Atlantic, eye-catching views of Donegal and on a clear day towards Scotland and the Isle of Islay. An ideal retreat in which to play golf.

The Championship course, Mussenden Links is a true test of golf even for the advanced player.

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Ballyliffin Golf Club – Old Course

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Ballyliffin Golf Club is widely regarded as the finest links complex in Ireland boasting two championship links courses – The Old Links and Glashedy Links. The new Glashedy Links is a Pat Ruddy and Tom Craddock masterpiece fashioned around the incredible dunes, and is rated amongst the best links tracks in the world.

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Rosapenna – Sandy Hills Links

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The Sandy Hills Links at Rosapenna opened for play in June 2003 and has matured into one of Ireland’s finest modern links courses. Where Old Tom settled for a course alongside the dunes, Pat Ruddy has gone straight through them from start to finish and created an awesome course that will test any golfer, yet somehow still seduce those that cannot live with it. Each hole is spectacular and the views across the Old Tom Morris Links toward the beautiful Sheephaven Bay will salve any wounds inflicted by this incredible golf course.

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Ballyliffin Golf Club – Glashedy Links

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Ballyliffin Golf Club is widely regarded as the finest links complex in Ireland boasting two championship links courses – The Old Links and Glashedy Links. The new Glashedy Links is a Pat Ruddy and Tom Craddock masterpiece fashioned around the incredible dunes, and is rated amongst the best links tracks in the world.

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Lahinch Golf Club – Old Course

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It has been described as ‘The St Andrews of Ireland”. Those who know and love the place firmly believe that Lahinch Golf Club doesn’t need comparison with any of the game’s other world class venues. Lahinch Golf Club is renowned for the way the links has retained all of its old virtues.

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Trump International Golf Links – Doonbeg

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This spectacular Martin Hawtree-designed, 18-hole Championship golf links course is a stunning site to behold. You will experience not only an incredible course, but unparalleled five star facilities, world-class hospitality and the highest standards of luxury. Situated on over 400 acres of Ireland’s most spectacular links overlooking the majestic Atlantic Ocean, Doonbeg is a fantastic golf course and a great addition to your SW Ireland trip.

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Ballybunion Golf Club – Old Course

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Located on the north west coast of County Kerry, on a beautiful stretch of sand dunes overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, you’ll find two wonderfully challenging and unique world class links golf courses at Ballybunion – the Old Course and the Trent Jones Cashen Course.

Whatever your choice, every hole, every hazard and every shot is defined by nature’s infinite presence.

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Waterville Golf Links

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Waterville Golf Links will provide you with a truly mystical experience. Surrounded by the sea it combines the beauty of classic links land which is forever challenged and shaped by the elements. United States team member Payne Stewart accepted the Captaincy of Waterville – the last golf honor he would receive before his tragic death. Today, a life sized bronze statue pays tribute to his Captaincy and his special relationship with Waterville.

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Old Head Golf Links

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Occupying a stunning and unique headland reaching out over two miles into the Atlantic Ocean, the Old Head of  Kinsale is home to the most spectacular world-class golf course and luxury members’ accommodation. The Club has developed into one of the most recognized and sought after golf experiences anywhere on earth.

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Tralee Golf Club

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Situated on the rugged Atlantic coast of Ireland’s south west, the links features towering dunes, undulating fairways, punishing rough and cliff top tees and greens. This stunning setting represents a true paradise for those willing to challenge what is widely acclaimed as one of the finest links courses in the world.

I may have designed the first nine, but surely God designed the back nine.

Arnold Palmer

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Royal County Down

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Royal County Down is located in one of the world’s most naturally beautiful links settings in the Murlough Nature Reserve. Against the magnificent backdrop of the Mountains of Mourne, the links stretches along the shores of Dundrum Bay, zigzagging back and forth to provide a different vista from virtually every hole.

Consistently voted #1 course in the world.

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Royal Portrush – Dunluce Links

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The Dunluce Links is rated as one of the most challenging and spectacular links courses in the world and has undergone major changes as part of preparations for the 148th Open. Perhaps the most famous hole here is “Calamity Corner,” a long par 3 featuring a steep dropoff short and right of the green. Spectacularly bunkered with narrow fairways and doglegs, Portrush is a supreme test of ball-striking, in particular when the wind is blowing off the northern coast.

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