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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Athlone
Christy O'Connor Jr.
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Athlone
Michael Dolan
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Athlone
Christy O'Connor Jr.
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Athlone
Peter McEvoy
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Dublin
Pat Ruddy
Wkends restrictd
Dublin
Paddy Merrigan designed subtantial revisions to the course in 1993.
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Dublin
Christy O'Connor Jnr & Peter McEvoy
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Dublin
Mel Flanagan
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Dublin
Seve Ballesteros & Jeff Howes
Wkends restrictd
Dundalk
Des Smyth & Declan Branigan
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Dundalk
Current layout by Cecil Barcroft (1914); substantially modified by Tom Simpson & Molly Gourlay (1938).
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Dundalk
Pat Ruddy & Tom Craddock
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Dundalk
New course designed by Christy O'Connor Jr (2000); the Old courses dates from 1930.
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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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Kilkenny
Jack Nicklaus
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Kilkenny
Jack McDaid and Jim Cassidy
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Limerick
Philip Walton
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Waterford
Original nine hole layout from 1939. Extended to a full 18 by Maurice Fives (1997).
Not Sundays
Waterford
Capt. H.C. Tippet
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Waterford
Des Smyth & Declan Brannigan
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Waterford
Five Enterprises (Dublin)
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Waterford
Patrick J. Merrigan
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Waterford
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Waterford
Eddie Hackett
(Closed in 2017)
Wexford
Peter McEvoy
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Wexford
Philip Walton's debut course as a golf designer.
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Wexford
Fred Hawtree and J.H. Taylor
FedEx Cup playoffs: the PGA Tour’s season finale starts in Memphis (TPC Southwind; Aug 11-14) and culminates in Atlanta (East Lake; Aug 25-28) … for the winner, the biggest prize in world golf … $18 million.
British Women’s Open: the year’s final women’s major championship heads for mighty Muirfield in East Lothian, Scotland, with Anna Nordqvist defending (Aug 4-7).
Anna Nordqvist: major championships aside, Solheim Cup stalwart Nordqvist notched up her first official Ladies European Tour win at the 2022 Ladies Dutch Open (aka Big Green Egg Open).
Cameron Smith: the Aussie PGA Tour player shot a blistering final round 64 to record his first major championship win at the home of golf in the 150th Open Championship.
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club: With a clubhouse that might befit a Roman Emperor, and a golf course to match, you can be sure of a memorable outing at Rome's most talked about golf facility.
Jim Fazio's original layout was much changed to create a modern Ryder Cup course ... now one of the Eternal City's (and Italy's) most revered.
Golf Son Gual is home to a course frequently rated the No.1 layout on the holiday island of Mallorca. Opening for play in 2007, this Thomas Himmel design combines the openness of a links-style layout with the stylish bunkering and not infrequent water hazards more typically associated with parkland courses.
Son Gual is located just a few kilometres from Palma (Mallorca). Palma's Old City shows clear influences from the city's Arab past.
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