Royal Portrush Golf Club

Portrush is one of Northern Ireland’s favourite tourist destinations with awe-inspiring views of the Atlantic coastline and a rich history and culture. To enjoy all the delights that this stunning and idyllic seaside town has to offer, book your accommodation at the Portrush Atlantic Hotel.

Located in the heart of the bustling centre of Portrush with a view of the Atlantic Ocean, guests can experience complete comfort and relaxation in beautiful surroundings with all the local amenities and sights within easy reach.

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Dunluce Links

The Dunluce links at Royal Portrush Golf Club is named after the ruined Dunluce castle that overlooks the course. Seven years after the club's formation, the first professional golf tournament in Ireland, won by Sandy Herd in 1895, was staged here.

Royal Portrush has the honour of being the only club outside mainland Britain to host the Open Championship.

"Portrush stands on a rocky promontory that juts out into the Atlantic, and, if I may allude to such trivialities," wrote Bernard Darwin in, The Golf Courses of the British Isles, "the scenery of the coast is wonderfully striking. On the east are the White Rocks, tall limestone cliffs that lead to Dunluce Castle and the headlands of the Giant's Causeway. On the west are the hills of Inishowen, beyond which lie Portsalon and Buncrana and the links of Donegal."

Valley Links

The Valley lies between the East Strand and the Dunluce golf course in Portrush. As its name suggests, the course is situated between the huge sand hills immediately along the Atlantic shore and the higher ground on which the Championship course is laid out. That is not to say the holes of the course are routed over anything like plain, level lying land, far from it, as the Valley has more than its fair share of the humps, hollows and undulations to be found on any links worthy of the name.