Ireland Golf Breaks has great golf hotels, award-winning accommodations, attractions, and some world-renowned golf courses throughout the Republic of Ireland.
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Ballybunion
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Lahinch
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Portmarnock
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European Club
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Waterville
Located on the northwest coast of County Kerry, on a beautiful stretch of 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. Nature’s infinite presence defines your choice, every hole, every hazard, and every shot.
Dough Castle (1306) provides a beautiful backdrop to the 7th hole on the Castle Course. Originally founded by the O’Connors in 1306, its old name, “Dumhach Ui Chonchuir”, translates as O’Connor’s Sandbank, and it was an O’Connor stronghold until they were ousted by the O’Brien’s in the days of Queen Elizabeth 1.
Portmarnock Golf Club sits majestically on a narrow tongue of shallow duneland. And as a measure of its enduring quality, it remains one of the most respected venues in world golf. No other Irish course has been graced by so many distinguished players in a rich history encompassing a broad sweep of significant events.
The European Club is located in tumbling dunes just south of Dublin, and it features sweeping sea views from nineteen of the twenty holes. Yes, there are two extra par-3s here, and they are in play most days, affording the golfer a 20-hole round, which includes five holes running very close to the sea. It is so close that it is expected to find players searching for their golf balls on the beach.
Waterville Golf Links is laid out on an isthmus of natural dune-land, bordered on its western flank by the Wild Atlantic Ocean, its Northern boundary by the Inny River, its Eastern verge by the Inny Estuary, and on its Southern margin with native bogland. This unique site location ensures a complete and unspoiled visual and audible environment– affording a unique tranquillity unmatched in golf.