Professional background, obsessed with golf in Ireland

Beyond The Dunes started the way most good ideas do — with two friends dreaming about making a living doing something they truly love.

David and Brian spent their careers doing very sensible things. David built his in accountancy, keeping other people's numbers honest. Brian built his as an actuary, calculating and managing risk for a living. Both spent years in finance and insurance, both excelled at it, and both eventually admitted the same thing to each other over a few post-round pints: none of it was as good as this.

David has been playing golf his entire life. Not a few years ago — actually his entire life - the kind of golfer who's played more of Ireland's links courses than most of the people running them. Brian came to it later. His competitive sporting years went to swimming, not golf — training and racing at a level most can barely imagine — and when he finally put that behind him and picked up a golf club, it hit him hard. Somewhere between his first proper links round and his fifth, he went from “I should play more” to genuinely, unhelpfully obsessed.

Both are family men with young golfers and wives who have also been bitten by the golf bug. Both notice the small things; the ones most people don't. And both had spent years in careers built entirely on precision, on getting the details right because the details are what everything else depends on.

That combination — one lifetime golfer, one recent convert with the fire of the newly obsessed, both allergic to sloppiness — is really the whole reason Beyond The Dunes exists. They want to build trips the right way; the right courses, the right transport, the right accommodation, the right restaurants, the right pubs, the right sight-seeing off-course experiences.

They look forward to making your trip to Ireland truly unforgettable.