Connacht, Ireland's western province, encompasses five counties: Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, and Sligo. Originally a Gaelic kingdom, Connacht became known as a place of exile during the Cromwellian conquest with the phrase "To Hell or to Connacht."
Sligo, Ireland
County Sligo Golf Club – or Rosses Point, as it is better known – is an exhilarating west coast links, situated in the heart of Yeats country.
Mayo, Ireland
Sligo, Ireland
Galway, Ireland
Sligo, Ireland
Galway, Ireland
Galway, Ireland
Galway, Ireland
The Carne links at Belmullet sits in splendid isolation on the Atlantic edge of County Mayo, where holes are laid out on a peninsula amidst gigantic dunes with far-reaching views across Blacksod Bay to the islands of Inis Gloire and Inis Geidhewild.
The location is ravishing; Enniscrone Golf Club is set on a promontory, which juts out into Killala Bay at the mouth of the Moy Estuary.
If you are brave enough to tackle the brutal Championship course from Connemara Golf Club's back tees – good luck – pray that the wind machine is turned off.
Between the Atlantic and Knocknarea Mountain lies Strandhill Golf Club. Described by Christy O'Connor Senior as "the hidden jewel of the West".
A Championship Golf Destination on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way.
The mature trees that bound many fairways provide a full range of seasonal colour at Portumna Golf Club and the wild deer that roam the course are a very pleasant diversion if spotted.
The design of the current course at Galway Golf Club is down to the efforts of the celebrated Scottish designer Alister MacKenzie who laid out the 18 holes in 1926.
