Royal Portrush

Description: Dunluce Road, Portrush, Co. Antrim, Ireland BT56 8JQ. Tel:01265 822311 Type: 18 hole natural seaside links and 18 ho ... more

Royal Portrush ... hole flat seaside links.

Newest Review: ... prompted Joe Carr, the famous Irish amateur and past Captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of Saint Andrews (1993) to plead, “These links are one of the great heritages of golf and must be protected for present and future generations of golfers”. Mr. Carr speaks for golfers everywhere. ~ ~ ... more

... Royal Portrush is rated at number thirteen in the list of the worlds’ best courses. ...more

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Royal Portrush Golf Club (360 words)
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~ ~ The Royal Portrush Golf Club was the first true links course in Ireland, opening for play in 1888. It is situated no more than a drive and a pitch from the town on the north County Antrim coastline, alongside the famous “Giant’s Causeway”. ~ ~ Similar in design and layout to the Old Course at Saint Andrews, Scotland, it boasts large, undulating putting greens, and fairways carved from the natural humps and hollows of the ever-present sand dunes. Precise accuracy is at a premium, with no fewer than ten holes bending either left or right, and the rough is both plentiful and very thick and heavy to severely punish any wayward shot. ... Read the complete review

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