Royal Portrush: 10 things that make this place so special
Royal Portrush Golf Club is, without question, one of the world’s great links. It has, of course, grown accustomed to hosting the game’s greatest players since 1888, Harry Vardon, Gary Player, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy (and many more besides) are just some of the legendary footsteps you will be following in as you walk around Royal Portrush Golf Club…
Portmarnock in contact with R&A over hosting The Open
Portmarnock Golf Club looks more likely than ever to become the first venue outside of the UK to host The Open. Though any decision remains some way off, Portmarnock confirmed it has had informal contact with The R&A, golf’s governing body, to discuss the possibility of hosting The Open and the AIG Women’s Open in the coming years. Widely considered as one of the world’s great links, Portmarnock Golf Club has always been seen as one of the fairest tests of golf in the world. It sits on rolling ground, rather than amid dramatic dunes, and stretches out on a…
Blown away by St Patrick’s Links – one of Ireland’s great courses
The views across St Patrick’s Links to Sheephaven Bay would’ve been enough to take my breath away if the wind whipping in off the Atlantic and across this incredible golf course, hadn’t got there first. Finding the words to capture the feeling of standing on this jaw-dropping linksland is not easy – dramatic would certainly be one – remote, wild, natural, rugged, epic would be a few others. And yet on their own, none of them feels sufficient to sum up a place that is an assault on the senses in the best possible way. I’m standing on the 4th…
Jameson Golf Links breathes new life into Portmarnock Resort
The relaunch of Jameson Golf Links follows a significant and ambitious renovation of Bernhard Langer’s original 1995 design and is a nod to the resort’s long and storied association with the Jameson whisky dynasty, who called this piece of land home for almost a century from 1847.…