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…
The Glashedy Links is the newer course at Ballyliffin Golf Club, designed by Pat Ruddy. While the Old Links has the genuine feel of a natural links course, the Glashedy has all the hallmarks of a 21st-century championship course, with long holes, big greens, wide fairways and revetted, in places deep, bunkers. The Ladies Irish…
Ballyliffin Golf Club has perhaps the best 36 holes in Ireland. Ballyliffin Golf Club was founded right after World War II and has since grown to boast two 18-hole courses since 1995. In addition to the Old Links, mostly designed by the legendary Eddie Hackett, there is the Glashedy Links. The Old Links was modernized…