5 of the Best Golf Courses in Ireland

5 INCREDIBLE golf courses that should be on your bucket list!

Embark on a journey on the Island of Ireland as Your Golf Travel experts discuss some of the most popular golf courses in the Republic of Ireland & Northern Island. Explore the lush greens and scenic fairways as we unveil only a few golfing gems which you can play. Whether you’re a golf enthusiast, a travel buff, or simply someone who appreciates the beauty of a well-designed course, this video is your all-access pass to the world of elite golfing.

If you like the look of any of these courses or wanted to see our curated list of best golf courses in the world then visit – https://www.yourgolftravel.com/golf-breaks/ireland

00:00 – Intro
00:43 – European Club
01:55 – Royal County Down
03:52 – Ballybunion Golf Club
05:47 – Tralee Golf Club
06:40 – Royal Portrush
08:33 – Outro
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Welcome to Your Golf Travel, now this video is all  about Ireland, golf in Ireland… the best of…   and I’ve got two of the best people to go into the  details about golf in Ireland to talk about why  

Exactly people need to go over to Ireland to play  golf. A golf break in Ireland is guaranteed to be   an absolutely unforgettable experience there  is no doubt that the country is littered with   some of the world’s most fantastic golf courses  offering some of the purest golfing experiences  

But the landscape is also adorned with many top  resorts and hotels to begin let’s look at one of   the youngest links courses in Ireland the European  Club that took my breath away and and obviously  

It’s in the top 100 courses in the world but even  knowing that when I went there I just thought wow   like this is incredible you know when I turned  up like you welcomed the the guys there are so  

Friendly you know just make you feel so welcomed  you know nothing’s too much for them and yeah then   the golf course is just fantastic it’s tough the  bunkers are huge with the big sleepers you know  

So you got to stay out of those and the greens  are just you know you got to part well um yeah if   you’re not playing well then it just eats you up  have you have you been lucky enough to play yeah  

Well many years ago European Club 20 plus years  ago uh but still very very uh memorable Ireland’s   great but the European Club is even you know a  one of for Ireland it’s just ridiculous like if  

I was to go back there for a golf holiday 100%  European Club for me I’ve not played obviously   to the extent that you boys have but the courses  that I’ve played European Club would be right at  

The top the European Club is located in County  Wicklow The Garden of Ireland and built by the   highly regarded Pat Ruddy and is a must play in  Ireland but next on the list let’s dive into Royal  

County Down number three in the world number one  UK and Island you know pure Links Golf the views   um right next to the you know the sea just an  incredible incredible place what is it about  

County Down that just makes it stand out from  the rest I think like almost every hole is like   you could put it anywhere it’s such a great golf  course um the views obviously as well like you’ve   got the mountains in the background it’s just a  complete package really for me and it’s obviously  

It’s really hard to get on so when you get a tea  time when you play I think you realise how lucky   you are to be playing so that for me as well is  you know one of the reasons why it’s one of the  

Best yeah I think it’s because often we play golf  courses especially parkland golf course is where   you can see other holes on the golf course  and you you you kind of focus can drift but   literally counting down is the hole that you’re  playing is pretty much the only hole that you can  

See love that you know you’re going through the  dunes especially the front line you go out and   it’s through the dunes and and then it comes back  and then you’re facing the uh the Mountains of  

Mourn I think it is and and I think we’ve touched  on it before or you have about the ninth hole,   you come up to the top of that Ridge is it and  the view from there is it’s one of the best on  

The golf get yeah you get your picture that’s the  swilkern and burn Bridge of uh of Irish golf I   think yeah say I think you need to play a couple  like you know because the first time you play it  

You’re a little bit like in take a caddy for sure  yeah you need a caddy there’s a lot of blind tee   shots um I think once you’ve played it you then  get an understanding of the golf course so when  

You know if you go back if you’re lucky enough to  play it again you would know right okay oh this I   know where I need to put my tee shot or you just  know where you can miss it a little bit more I  

So ranked number four in the world and a past  host of the European Tour Royal County Down is   a bucket list course to play next we moved south  of Ireland to Ballybunion what are your thoughts   on Ballybunion very very memorable again um you  know it’s another for me a bucket list course  

That if you are heading to the southwest of  Ireland you need to be ticking that off and   including it in your itinerary yeah um it gets  booked up very quickly as well obviously there’s   a lot of Americans that will come over because  on obviously the the Southwest you know Coast  

So it’s easy for them to to get in and out um  so yeah again you need to book in advance two   two courses there um and you know both both very  very challenging links but obviously the bucket  

List is the old so so it’s located in County Kerry  and has been claimed to have once been the number   one course in Ireland why is that well I get I  guess once again it’s it’s it’s a classic links  

Golf course um you know it’s quite unusual you’ve  got a graveyard off to the right of the first uh   first hole which I’m sure takes a lot of drives  yeah yeah so a lot of a lot of people’s kind of  

Uh rans begins in the graveyard so a sh yeah yeah  and end and ends there yeah so but once once again   you know meander in its way fairways meander on  through Junes and and just a beautiful beautiful  

Place to play golf yeah um still is rated number  one uh in South Republic of Ireland yeah yeah yeah   yeah it 100% a bucket this yeah course again yeah  that you know and and that’s borne out by the fact  

That you know it’s really hard to get tea times  yeah yeah you know the links land at Ballybunion   is home to two tremendous courses and is one of  the incredible courses in the southwest of Ireland   just like Tralee one of my favorite’s that I’ve  ever played worldwide is Tralee yeah um it’s it’s  

A fascinating golf course you kind of start in a  bit of a park landy type course and then you end   up in a two links it’s fantastic yeah um but once  again not the only one down there that’s the whole  

Beauty of southwest of Island the itinerary that  you can put together for clients is phenomenal set   in a truly a inspiring location in County Kerry  the Lake District of Ireland try is not only one   of the best golf courses in the UK offering a  fantastic test of golf but a full-on attack on  

The senses from start to finish one where golfers  may just end up taking as many photographs as they   do go shots with so many great golf courses in  Ireland the team at your golf travel could list  

Endless amounts of courses to play but before we  end the video we have to mention the incredible   Royal Portrush they had the open there in 2019 for  the first time in 50 odd years which was a massive  

Success um they’ve got it again 2025 so we already  got packages ready to go for that so if anyone’s   looking for that let us know we can you know sort  you out my my favourite type of golf is Links Golf  

So once once again it’s a real bucket list course  to play um you know you go out um starts a little   bit in land but then you you you work your way  out to about the fifth hole I think it is that  

Sits right by the side of the ocean and then you  come back and uh it is it is phenomenal once again   you know like County Down the hole in front of  you is what you’re playing and and how tough is  

It is it tough yeah it it Calamity corner is well  you’ve got this I think it’s the 16th okay where   you go across this kind of Ravine type thing where  Shane Larry was a for IR hit in that in that rain  

And wind and whatever and as soon as he hit that  green that was basically the Open Championship one   um that was a phenomenal round of golf that he put  together to win that yeah Bucket List was for me  

100% I’ve heard it a lot and I remember speaking  to Darren Clark our ambassador on an interview   and he just kept on speaking about it like yeah  yeah you know the hes you know just some of the  

Par fre they just look incredible you know just so  inviting but so challenging yeah so yeah tough but   you know one one to one to play nice yeah and once  again it you know just down the road you’ve got  

Other great golf courses so put it put it together  as an in an itinerary and you know put it in with   yeah yeah basically highlighting to me that You’  have got endless amounts of fantastic courses to  

Play in Ireland full stop Yes full stop that’s  the video done there we go so that’s the best golf   courses in Ireland thank you Sam thank you Martin  so much for giving us your your expert tips book  

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