Why it matters
County Sligo at Rosses Point — usually shortened to "Rosses Point" — is the home club of the West of Ireland Championship and one of the country's most-loved member courses. The links sits on a plateau above Sligo Bay with the flat-topped Benbulben mountain on the eastern horizon. Harry Colt's 1927 routing is largely intact and the back-nine drop down to the strand is among the most striking sequences in Irish golf.
How to play it
Walking only and walkable. 90 minutes from Knock (NOC) or four hours from Dublin. Pair with Enniscrone 40 minutes south or Strandhill in the village for an Atlantic-coast day. Yeats' grave at Drumcliff churchyard is two miles down the road and worth the side-trip.