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:
Solheim Cup: can Europe defend the most prestigious team trophy in women’s professional golf, when the 17th Solheim Cup is played out at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio (Sept 4-6).
Italian Open: Nicolai Højgaard recorded his first European Tour win (Sept 5), just a week after his twin brother Rasmus landed the European Masters title (Aug 29); the first brothers to win back-to-back on the European Tour.
Who's Who:
Patrick Cantlay: moved into the world top 5, after winning the final two FedEx Cup playoff events and scooping the $15 million first prize.
Trish Johnson: kept the Senior LPGA Championship trophy in European hands, with her second win in this event in its four-year history.
The San Roque Club: "... how best to revitalise a course that had previously been fit to play regular host to the European Tour’s qualifying school finals..." by Toby Ingleton.
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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