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:
Women’s major championships: the month of June sees two women’s majors: the US Women’s Open (June 3-6), with A Lim Kim defending, and the Women’s PGA Championship (June 24-27), with Sei Young Kim defending.
Senior PGA Championship: the revered Southern Hills in Oklahoma hosts the 81st staging of this event (May 27-30); Ken Tanigawa holds the title from its last playing in 2019.
Who's Who:
Phil Mickelson: in winning the 2021 PGA Championship, the world’s most famous “leftie” became the oldest winner of a golf major championship.
Hideki Matsuyama: became the first Japanese professional to win a men’s major championship, when he triumphed in this year’s Masters Tournament.
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.
American Dunes opens for play following Nicklaus transformation
Nicklaus Design has transformed the former Grand Haven Golf Club in Michigan into the American Dunes Golf Club, a new public course that is now open for play
New course opens for play at Barnbougle
Bill Coore designs 14-hole layout with “sporty” holes on dune ridge above Lost Farm (golf carts allowed).
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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