Lahinch Golf Club: Old Course

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Location:
Dough,
Lahinch,
IE
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Website:
Holes:
18
Established:
1892
Designers:
Access:
Semi-Private
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Lahinch Golf Club is a links golf course in western Ireland, in the town of Lahinch on the northwest coast of County Clare in northern Munster. It is situated approximately thirty-two kilometres (20 mi) northwest of the town of Ennis. In 2024, Golf Digest ranked the Old Course at Lahinch #27 on their list of the world’s greatest golf courses.

Via the Lahinch Golf Club entry on Wikipedia

Club founded in 1892, course designed by Old Tom Morris, “enhanced” by MacKenzie, and “returned to its natural beauty” by Hawtree.1

Course layout designed by MacKenzie.2

Bunke “flattend out” the greens, Hawtree restored them.3


  1. Lahinch GC Captain’s Welcome 

  2. Lahinch GC’s website stated this in 2011, retrived via Archive.org