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
Tournaments:
European Tour: 2021 marks the 50th and last season of the world renowned European Tour, launched in April 1972 at the Spanish Open. From 2022 the Tour will be sponsored by Dubai-based global supply chain and ports operator DP World, and will be known as the DP World Tour.
South African Open: December 2021 events in South Africa have again been impacted by the Covid pandemic. The South African Open (Dec 2-5) will no longer be played as a DP World Tour event, and the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 9-12) has been cancelled.
Who's Who:
Bernhard Langer: at age 64, Langer collected a record sixth Charles Schwab Cup, the only player to have won the season-long points chase more than twice. He also topped the PGA Tour Champions money-list for the 11th time out of a possible 13 since 2008.
Carlota Ciganda: the five-time Solheim Cup star was delighted to record a fourth Ladies European Tour win in her home national championship, the Ladies Spanish Open.
Lee Elder: Trailblazer, Ryder Cup player, four-time PGA Tour winner and eight-time Senior PGA Tour winner, Lee Elder died on November 28, aged 87. In 1975 he became the first African American golfer to play in the Masters tournament, and in so doing provided one of the pivotal moments in the history of professional golf.
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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