Sightseeing Stops to Add to Your Ireland Golf Trip Ireland is one of the few destinations where a thirty-minute detour can put a UNESCO World Heritage site, a 5,000-year-old monument, or a 200-metre Atlantic cliff between two tee times. The compactness of the country, Belfast to Cork is shorter than San Francisco to Los Angeles,…

Best Restaurants Near Ireland’s Top Golf Courses Ireland’s restaurant reputation has lagged its dining reality by at least a decade. Visiting golfers who think of Irish food as boiled potatoes and an indifferent pub carvery have been on the wrong side of the catch-up curve. The country now holds a meaningful Michelin presence, the seafood…

Irish Whiskey Distillery Tours for Golfers: Combine Golf and Whiskey Two of Ireland’s great revivals have happened in parallel over the last fifteen years. The first is the rebirth of Irish whiskey, with more than forty distilleries now operating where there were only four in 2010. The second is the steady international rediscovery of Irish…

Best 19th Hole Pubs in Ireland: Where Golfers Drink After the Round The round isn’t over when you sink your final putt on the 18th green. In Ireland, the round ends at the right pub, a low-ceilinged room with smoke-darkened beams, a perfectly settled pint of Guinness on the bar, and a fiddle player tuning…

Beyond the Course: Food, Pubs & Experiences on an Ireland Golf Trip Ask any golfer who has returned from Ireland what they remember most, and the answer rarely starts with a scorecard. Yes, they will mention the dunes at Ballybunion or the par-3 across the chasm at Old Head. They will recall the morning fog…