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Lahinch Golf Club

'The St Andrews of Ireland', Lahinch Golf Club would like to welcome the people of West Cork to West Clare.

Set right on the Atlantic and exposed to the ocean through all her moods, moulded and shaped over centuries by nature's harsh elements and an occasional touch of human genius, Lahinch, with its towering sand dunes, undulating fairways and rolling greens is the perfect natural golfing terrain - a true links.

Golf at Lahinch goes back to 1892 when officers of a Scotish Regiment - The Black Watch, stationed in Limerick City, were out exploring the rugged countryside of Co Clare when they happened upon the vast expanse of sand dunes at Lahinch. Together with some native enthusiasts, these Scotsmen founded Lahinch Golf Club on Good Friday 1893.

The original course was designed by the legendary 'Old' Tom Morris of St Andrews who, on completing the layout enthused; 'I consider the links as fine a natural course as it ever has been my good fortune to play over'

Today Lahinch boasts two 18 hole courses, the old course and a second, the Castle Course which was added in 1975. Much of the pleasure of Lahinch is derived from the atmostphere that envelops not just the Golf Links but the entire village which rests above the course. In Lahinch everybody is a Golf enthusiast and this quickly transmits itself to the visitor hence the description of Lahinch as the St Andrews of Irish Golf.

At Lahinch the Golfer is always welcome, and the course whatever the weather, is ready to present a challenge.

'Ah! Seaweed smells from sandy caves
And thyme in mists and whiffs,
In coming tide, Atlantic waves
Slapping the sunny cliffs
Lark song and sea sounds in the year and splendour, splendour everywhere"
(Sir John Betjeman)

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