Ireland Golf Courses | Links Golf Course

“I found Ballybunion to be nothing less than the finest seaside links I have ever seen”

HERBERT WARREN WIND – THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE

Est. 1893

Length:
Blue Tees:………………………..6,739 yards
White Tees:………………………6,383 yards
Ladies Tees:……………………..5,486
Par:……………………….71 Men / 74 Ladies

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THE OLD COURSE – ONE OF A KIND

“If sheer pleasure is the yardstick, then Ballybunion’s Old Course gets my vote as the No.1 in the world.” – Peter Dobereiner, the famous English golf writer.

Dobereiner was doing no more than reflecting the views of the locals who somehow knew, through all of their struggles for survival since the day the club was founded way back in 1893, that the Ballybunion links was an unknown treasure waiting for the outside world to come and discover it.

Although the course’s fame did not arrive internationally until the late 1960s, there were hints. The first came in 1936 when the famous English architect Tom Simpson was hired to prepare the course for the Irish Amateur Close Championship one year later.

Est. 1984

Length:
Blue Tees:………………………..6,290 yards
White Tees:………………………5,917yards
Ladies Tees:……………………..5,027 yards
Par:……………………….72 Men & Ladies

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THE CASHEN COURSE – by Robert Trent Jones

It’s simple really. If the Cashen Course at Ballybunion Golf Club were situated anywhere else, rather than adjacent to the world-famous Old Course, it would attract far more attention and plaudits than it does.

Although built on similar, stirring terrain to the Old Course in the 1980s, in many ways ‘the Cashen’ is more irascible, more spectacular, more brutal and more unforgiving and more difficult to tame than its older, more celebrated sibling.

In a strong wind, the Cashen links verges on being impossible – its dunes are higher, its valleys are deeper, its greens more undulating.

The links changes mood unrecognisably from one day to the next.

PRACTICE

Ballybunion was created for the pure enjoyment of golf. In order to help you prepare or warm up, we have a practice facility which incorporates:
• A driving range
• Chipping green with bunkers

Two putting greens are located beside the clubhouse, while a third putting green is located near the first tee on the Trent Jones Cashen Course.

LESSONS

Our golf professional Brian O’Callaghan is available for lessons. Learn the art of shot-making, chipping, bump and run, bunker play, playing in the wind and putting.

To enquire, please call 068 27146.