A site about Ireland's links courses, the championships they hold and the ground they sit on.
Every piece on the site, by section. Thirty-five pieces across five sections — the whole roster, laid out in full.
35 pieces
The Grass That Holds the Dune Together
Dry, Poor, and Left Alone
A Blowout Starts as a Footpath
Metres a Decade on the Atlantic Coast
The Holes That Have Already Gone
What Ropes and Mats Are Actually Doing
What the R&A's Sustainability Programme Actually Covers
Irrigation Licensing on a Links That Doesn't Want Water
Ballybunion Old: Ground Nobody Would Be Permitted to Build on Now
Lahinch: Laid Out in 1892, Disputed Ever Since
Newcastle: The Lists Have Said This for a Long Time
Portrush Dunluce: Harry Colt's 1932 Course and the Two Holes It Lost
Old Head: A Promontory That Has No Equivalent
Carne at Belmullet: Hackett's Dunes and Almost No Budget
Waterville: The Course on the Iveragh Peninsula
Tralee: The First Arnold Palmer Links in Europe
Adare Manor After Fazio: What a Parkland Rebuild Means for a Ryder Cup
The European Club: Pat Ruddy's Course on the Wicklow Coast
Portmarnock: A Peninsula Course and Its Long Championship Record
Rosses Point: Old Tom Morris, Harry Colt, and Benbulben Behind
The Open at Royal Portrush: 2019, and Then 2025
Adare Manor 2027: What the Ryder Cup Is Coming Back To
The K Club in 2006: What the Last Irish Ryder Cup Produced
Where the Irish Open Goes and Why It Moves
The Walker Cup at Lahinch: What Amateur Golf Looks Like on a Links
The Amateur Championship's Irish Editions
Harry Colt at Portrush and Newcastle: One Architect, Two Masterworks
Eddie Hackett: Forty Years of Irish Links on Almost No Money
Martin Hawtree's Brief at Portrush: Two New Holes Into Dunes Nobody Had Played Over
Tom Fazio's Adare Manor: What a $40 Million Rebuild Buys
Arnold Palmer at Barrow: A Links Architect by One Course
Old Tom Morris at Lahinch and Rosses Point: The Oldest Hands in Irish Golf