Ballybunion Golf Club Old Course

“If sheer pleasure is the yardstick, then Ballybunion’s Old Course gets my vote as the No. 1 in the world.” So said
Peter Dobereiner, the famous English golf writer.

Dobereiner was doing no more than reflecting the views of the locals who somehow knew through all of their struggles for survival since the day the club was founded way back in 1893 that Ballybunion Links Golf in Ireland was an unknown treasure waiting for the outside world to come and discover it.

Although, it did not happen internationally until the late 1960s, there were hints. Notably in 1936 when the
English architect, Tom Simpson, was hired to prepare the course for the Irish Amateur Close Championship one year later.