Royal Portrush Golf Club is home to one of the best and most challenging links golf courses in the world, theDunluce 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

Dunluce Links

Championship CourseThe Dunluce Links at Royal Portrush Golf Club ranks amongst the world’s greatest courses. Voted Number 12 in the world by Golf Magazine, it is a masterpiece of golf course architecture. Unimaginable rough and testing greens, combined with the unpredictable weather of the roaring North Atlantic make this course an admirable test for even the most seasoned golf aficionado.

Valley Links

The Valley lies between the East Strand and the Dunluce golf course in Portrush. As its name suggests, the course is situated between the huge sand hills immediately along the Atlantic shore and the higher ground on which the Championship course is laid out. That is not to say the holes of the course are routed over anything like plain, level lying land, far from it, as the Valley has more than its fair share of the humps, hollows and undulations to be found on any links worthy of the name.

Course Highlights

• Fantastic course, one
• not to be missed
  Coastal views

18 hole parkland golf course and driving rangeThe Academy at the Roe Park Resort is a Northern Ireland-based Centre of Excellence designed to provide the best possible facilities to help you improve your game, whether you’re an absolute beginner or the next Rory McIlroy.

The first class facilities at The Academy make it one of the best golf academies in Northern Ireland and include a Driving Range, chipping and bunker area and putting green. Our outdoor driving range bays utilise the latest technology in synthetic grass, to give you that realistic club to turf contact and is the same technology as used at the prestigious K Club.

Our indoor studio is equally advanced, using state of the art systems (Royal Golf System) to record and analyse each individual’s swing – identifying your strengths and weaknesses in order to determine areas for improvement.

These systems give our experienced teaching professionals a unique method to analyse your swing and communicate improvements more effectively and in less time. The system records each player’s lessons so that changes to your set up or swing can be easily identified in the future.

If you’re serious about improving your game, The Academy at the Roe Park Resort provides world-class facilities and expert tuition for amateurs, enthusiasts and scratch golfers alike. No wonder it’s become one of Northern Ireland’s most acclaimed golf academies.

Course Highlights

18 Holes
Academy
Ladies Club
Mens Club

Castlerock Golf Club, is a classic links course set amid towering dunes. Situated on the Causeway coast and only a 20 minute drive from both Royal Portrush Golf Club and Portstewart Golf Club, Castlerock is a more than worthy neighbour to both of these great Irish links.A round at Castlerock will test every department of your game. The 200 yard par three signature 4th hole, called “Leg o’ Mutton”, requires a tee shot struck over a burn, with a railway track lurking to the right. Great courses offer great closing holes and the short par four 18th at Castlerock is no different. Even with a good drive on this slight dogleg, due to the contours of the fairway, you are often left with a relatively blind approach to a tricky plateau green.

Course Highlights

• 20 minute drive from Portrush
• Links course

Founded in 1894 and redesigned by Willie Park jnr in the 1920’s this championship links course received its greatest makeover with the purchase of land known as “Thistly Hollow” in 1981. This enabled the club to build a stunning new seven holes through towering dunes and fabulous and natural links land. Designed by local school teacher Des Giffin the Strand Course is the jewel in the Portstewart portfolio.Portstewart has played host to many major Amateur and Professional Championships over the years including most recently the British Girls Championship in 2006. Portstewart Golf Club is proud to offer 54 holes of golf spectacularly set on Ulster’s famous Causeway Coast with something for every golfer.

The Strand – par 72
A true championship links course,The jewel in Portstewart’s crown

The Riverside – par 68
Includes 9 new holes running down to the river – a perfect day out for the society golfer

The Old Course – par 64
Along the rocky shore east of Portstewart where the Club was founded in 1894

Course Highlights

• 54 Holes
• Links course
• Breathtaking views