Beyond the Dunes
Aerial view of Ballybunion Golf Club on the clifftops above the Shannon Estuary

OLD COURSE

Ballybunion Golf Club

The course that defines Irish links golf

Ballybunion Old Course is the benchmark against which all other links courses are measured. Perched on the cliffs above the Shannon Estuary, it has been shaping golfers — and humbling them — since 1893.

The Old Course demands every shot in the bag. Fairways tumble through ancient dunes, greens sit in natural amphitheatres carved by centuries of wind and tide, and the rough is as unforgiving as the Atlantic gales that sculpted it.

"A course I would want to play before I die."
Tom Watson

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