Dublin, Ireland
Just 15 km from downtown Dublin, Portmarnock is a natural links course and considered to be a very faint test of golf. Constructed on a two-mile long, sandy peninsula on the East Coast of Ireland, the course is more reminiscent of a Scottish links than a typical Irish course, because there is an absence of the high sand dunes characteristic of true Irish links courses. Nevertheless Portmarnock has hosted 12 Irish Open tournaments and is consistently ranked amongst the top 50 golf courses in the world. With water on three sides the course is at the mercy of the wind and due to its clever routing, the wind effects play from a different direction on each hole. As a typical links course, there are many pot bunkers, few trees and wide undulating fairways with fast and true greens, considered to be the major attraction of this course.
The final five holes are considered one of the greatest closing stretches in golf. The par three 15th hugs the shoreline and the prevailing wind does its best to bend any tee shot towards the sandy beach, while protecting the green with three fearsome pot bunkers. Consider a par an achievement here.
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