coast and worth every minute of the drive. There is no more spectacular setting in the game than this 220 acre rock promontory perched hundreds of feet above the Atlantic on every side. If you proceed north to Dublin you’ll find the famous Waterford Crystal factory along the way which is a fascinating experience.

Should you prefer roads less traveled that wind through some of the most beautiful and remote countryside imaginable, you will find none to match those that lead to the sensational links courses in northwest Ireland. The collection of Connemara, Eddie Hackett's Carne (Belmullet), Enniscrone, County Sligo (Rosses Point), Donegal, Portnoo Golf Club, Rosapenna with Pat Ruddy's Sandy Hills now complimenting the original 1891 layout combined with Ballyliffin's Old Course and Glashedy Links stand as tall as any group in the entire British Isles.

If you fly to Dublin, Portmarnock, Bernard Langer's Portmarnock Links, the K Club, The Island Club, The European Club and County Louth all are found within an hour of city center. Steer north to Northern Ireland two of the game’s masterpieces await which are likely to define your visit. World top ten Royal County Down is where Old Tom Morris broke ground first in 1889, followed with changes by Harry Vardon and H.S. Colt in the 1920's. It is easily an Open caliber layout, with groves of gorse and heaving dunes set before the most magnificent of backdrops, the Mountains of Mourne. Further north, you will come to Royal Portrush (Dunluce Course), the only venue outside of Scotland and England to ever host The Open Championship (1951), and the only one to do it twice when The Open makes its historic return in 2019. Sharing a 25 mile stretch of this dramatic dunesland along North Antrim Coast are Portstewart, Castlerock and Ballycastle all longstanding favorites in the area.

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