 |
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
Royal Portrush Golf Club GolfAbroadIQ - Special Offers - Click here
Royal Portrush Golf Club is home to one of the best and most challenging links golf courses in the world, the Dunluce Links, and the hidden gem, the Valley Links. The only club in Ireland to have hosted The Open Championship.
Royal Portrush is a members’ club which welcomes visitors all year round to face the challenges of its courses and to brave the testing conditions.
Host to many tournaments such as the North of Ireland Championship-one of the four provincial major championships in Ireland, the Senior British Open Championship and The Amateur Championship, Royal Portrush is delighted to welcome the Senior British Open Amateur Championship in 2011, from 3rd to 5th August, and also the Palmer Cup in 2010.
Royal Portrush Golf Club is delighted to have amongst its members Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington and Graeme McDowell, all world class champions and Ryder Cup stars. Fred Daly, born and bred in Portrush and a member of the club, had been the only Irishman to win ‘The Open’ until Harrington’s magnificent achievements in 2007/08.
Altogether more than fifty national championships, British and Irish, have been decided here. The first professional tournament ever held in Ireland was run by the club in 1895. It was decided by match play, and the famous Sandy' Herd, who was the Club's first professional, was the winner; his opponent in the final was Harry Vardon, who was then a comparative unknown player, just coming up to the form that was to win him his first Open Championship in the following year. In July, Royal Portrush had the distinction of being the first Irish course to host The Open Championship, the winner being Max Faulkner with a score of 285 for the four rounds.
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
