St. Anne’s Golf Club is an impressive and testing links course situated on Dublin’s most famous ecological attraction - Bull Island Nature Reserve in Dublin Bay. The island, a bird sanctuary under the protection of Unesco, is natural links terrain of sand and dunes. The island’s beach is over three miles long. In 2003 St Anne’s completed a major development of the course and clubhouse, which affords spectacular panoramic views of the bay and Wicklow mountains beyond.

The origins of golf in Laytown and Bettystown Golf Club date back to the last quarter of the 19th century when historians agree that golf was first played on the south bank of the River Boyne. This course, located 25 miles north of Dublin, is a traditional links golf course and a good test for any golfer. Taking its place alongside Portmarnock, The Island and County Louth Golf Clubs, it presents a unique challenge with narrow fairways, windswept burrows and fast greens all framed with superb views of the Cooley and Mourne Mountains and the Irish Sea

The Island was once on an island. It’s now attached to the mainland but it’s still an isolated peninsula-like spur of links land, sandwiched between the Irish Sea, the beach of Donabate and the Broadmeadow estuary. Few people know about The Island, despite the fact that the course is over one hundred years old and has featured in numerous ranking tables over the years. This is a no-frills golf course. There is nothing manicured and it’s all very harmonious and in tune with its surroundings. Some of the most shaggy, rugged and looming sand dunes imaginable provide natural and distinct amphitheatres for many of the holes

Seapoint is a relatively young golf club but what it lacks in age it is making up for in terms of reputation. Recent reviews and articles have described Seapoint as “one of the up and coming links courses in Ireland”, “ a must play course for all golfers”, and “one of the finest links courses in the world” . With magnificent views of the Mourne Mountains in the distance, Termonfeckin beach and the Irish Sea to the East, the landscape at Seapoint reflects all the qualities of true links land, with natural dunes, marram grasses and indigenous plants in plentiful supply.

Portmarnock Golf Club is universally acknowledged as one of the world's truly great links courses. Located on a small peninsula, which extends into the Irish Sea, Portmarnock is surrounded by water on three sides and laid out in serpentine fashion, with no two successive holes playing in the same direction, demanding a continual discernment of wind direction. The quality and location of Portmarnock have made it a superb venue for some great events over the years. The British Amateur in 1949, the Canada Cup in 1960, the 1991 Walker Cup and some 12 Irish Open Championships have been held on its hallowed turf.

Though County Louth (or Baltray as it is known) is not mentioned as often as the likes of Portmarnock or Ballybunion, rest assured that this is a magnificent golf course.Situated 4 miles from the historic town of Drogheda at the mouth of the river Boyne, with the river to the south and the Irish Sea to the east, this is Links golf at is very best. Rated in Golf Digest's top 100 courses in the world as a "hidden gem". It is one of the top twenty five courses in the British Isles and it is in the top six in the island.