Ballyliffin Golf Club (Old Links) – Review and Rating

Translated by AI

The original course at Ballyliffin Golf Links, first played in 1947, with a genuine links feel.

The first time I walked down the first fairway on Ballyliffin’s Old Links and saw the formidable “washboard,” which looks like a choppy sea running across between the dunes, a thought flew through my head: how do you mow a fairway that looks like that?

I had reason to ask myself that question several times during the days I got to know Ballyliffin’s two 18-hole courses. The question got its final answer when I spotted a mower with pivot-mounted cutting cylinders no thicker than 10 cm.

This page by Bo Sjosten was originally published in Swedish on our sister site Golfjournalen.se. It has been translated by AI.