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.
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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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4 Comments
Nope. A list with Tralee on it over Waterville and Ballyliffin is crazy. Top five in Ireland are Portrush, Waterville, Carne, Ballyliffin, Baltray. European, Lahinch and Ballybunion are good and RCD the most over rated course there is.
Lahinch , old head, ballyfin , Waterville
Some hidden gems in Ireland as well that get overlooked constantly because of the big boys. Arklow and Woodenbridge are just 10/15 mins from The European Club. Both ridiculously good value for money
If ye get to go play carne i believe it would make it into yer top 2 courses ever played its mind blowing