Ireland East boasts a staggering series of excellent golf courses. The creation of the EuroRoute 1 Motorway down Ireland’s east coast makes this as one of the world’s great golf destinations with some of the World’s Top-100 Golf Courses.
Make the most out of your golf trip to the east of Ireland. Look up the location of the golf courses on the map; it will help you with your planning to play the best during your holidays. To each golf course visited we have applied a rating. The scale, 5 (highest) to 2 (lowest), attempts to provide an indication of the golfing experience you can expect at each rated course. Hover your on-screen mouse pointer above the rating key hereafter to read our definitions.
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Dundalk
Pat Ruddy & Tom Craddock
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Kilkenny
Original design by Cecil Barcroft (1899). Later modifications to greens and bunkering by Tom Simpson & Molly Gourlay (1937).
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Dundalk
Current layout by Cecil Barcroft (1914); substantially modified by Tom Simpson & Molly Gourlay (1938).
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Limerick
Philip Walton
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Waterford
Five Enterprises (Dublin)
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Dublin
Mel Flanagan
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Athlone
Christy O'Connor Jr.
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Dublin
Pat Ruddy
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Waterford
Patrick J. Merrigan
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Athlone
Christy O'Connor Jr.
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Waterford
Original nine hole layout from 1939. Extended to a full 18 by Maurice Fives (1997).
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Dundalk
New course designed by Christy O'Connor Jr (2000); the Old courses dates from 1930.
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Dublin
Seve Ballesteros & Jeff Howes
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Kilkenny
Jack McDaid and Jim Cassidy
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Kilkenny
Jack Nicklaus
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Athlone
Michael Dolan
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Athlone
Peter McEvoy
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Dublin
Christy O'Connor Jnr & Peter McEvoy
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Wexford
Fred Hawtree and J.H. Taylor
(Closed in 2017)
Wexford
Peter McEvoy
Wkends restrictd
Dundalk
Des Smyth & Declan Branigan
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Wexford
Philip Walton's debut course as a golf designer.
Not Sundays
Waterford
Capt. H.C. Tippet
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Waterford
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Waterford
Des Smyth & Declan Brannigan
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Waterford
Eddie Hackett
Wkends restrictd
Dublin
Paddy Merrigan designed subtantial revisions to the course in 1993.
Tournaments:
PGA Championship: the year’s second men’s major championship is hosted by Southern Hills CC, Tulsa, Oklahoma, amidst doubt as to whether reigning champion Phil Mickelson will defend his title (May 19-22).
Soudal Open: Belgium’s return to European Tour golf sees 36-hole Rinkven International GC host the Soudal Open, the country’s national open championship (May 12-15).
Who's Who:
Scottie Scheffler: bags the 2022 Masters Tournament title, and with it a fourth win in six starts on the PGA Tour and his first major championship victory.
Stephen Dodd: took the European Senior Tour’s 2021 Order of Merit honours following the abandonment due to rain of the season’s final event, the MCB Tour Championship – Mauritius (April 1-3, 2022).
Golf World Top 100: Best Golf Courses in Europe. From France to Spain to the Netherlands and Norway, the Golf World Top 100 panel reveals the places you have to play (published 20 October 2021).
New 27-hole golf complex to be built in southern Belgium
A new golf complex in southern Belgium, close to the border with Luxembourg, will start construction in June 2021.
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club "makes its tournament debut with the hosting of the Italian Open on the European Tour" by Richard Humphreys
Gamble Sands opens short course:
David McLay Kidd’s 14-hole QuickSands short course has opened for play at Gamble Sands in Brewster, Washington.
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