Ireland
Ireland is home to 7 courses we'd build a trip around — starting with Waterville Golf Links. Mostly Links and Cliff-top links courses. Every entry below is curated, fact-checked against public sources, and linked to a sample itinerary you can build on.
Plan a trip to IrelandWaterville Golf Links
Atlantic links on Kerry's Ring — one of Payne Stewart's favorite courses, and the round he played most before the 1999 US Open.
Old Head Golf Links
Cliff-top spectacle on a peninsula 300 feet above the Atlantic — golf as theme park, expense as ticket price.
Trump International Doonbeg
Greg Norman links along a 2-mile crescent of County Clare beach — the most southerly of the great Irish links.
Enniscrone Golf Club
Wild west-coast dunes in County Sligo — the largest links course in Ireland and one of the least-played.
County Sligo (Rosses Point)
Yeats country links above Sligo Bay — the West-of-Ireland Championship home, and a member's-favourite for nine generations.
Portstewart (Strand Course)
The Strand opener is the most dramatic first hole in Irish golf — and that's before the dunes start.
Castlerock Golf Club
The understated third leg of the Causeway Coast — links + Mussenden Temple on the horizon.
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