A site about Ireland's links courses, the championships they hold and the ground they sit on.
Skellig Bay is about Ireland's links courses, the championships they hold and the ground they sit on. It is organised in five sections and an archive.
The Ground takes links turf as a maintenance problem: marram and its root system, fescue against Poa annua, the anatomy of a dune blowout, published erosion rates for the Atlantic coast, and the courses that have already lost holes to the sea.
The Courses takes each course as a record — who drew the ground, who changed it, and what it has held — from Ballybunion Old and Lahinch to Royal County Down, Royal Portrush's Dunluce, Carne at Belmullet and Adare Manor's rebuilt parkland.
The Championships covers The Open at Royal Portrush, the Ryder Cup at Adare Manor and at the K Club, the Irish Open's rotation, the Amateur Championship and the Walker Cup at Lahinch. The Architects runs from Old Tom Morris to Martin Hawtree. The Ball covers the rollback announced for 2028, the distance data behind it and the 2020 unification of the handicap system.
Every date, ranking, yardage and figure on the site is attributed in the sentence that carries it — to the R&A, the USGA, Geological Survey Ireland, the OPW, a dated championship result or a club's own published record.