Leinster is een geweldige golfbestemming en de provincie biedt veel historische en hoog aangeschreven golfclubs. Langs de kust bij Dublin vindt je geweldige linksbanen zoals The Island Golf Club, The European Club, Portmarnock Golf Club, Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links en The Royal Dublin Golf Club. Maar er zijn ook veel mooie parkbanen te vinden in Leinster, zoals Killeen Castle, The K Club, Mount Juliet Estate, Druids Glen en Wicklow Golf Club, wat in feite een parkachtige klifbaan is. Er is dus voldoende afwisseling in Leinster te vinden voor alle soorten golfers.

In en rond Dublin kunnen de greenfee tarieven hoog zijn, maar iets verder landinwaarts of verder weg dalen de prijzen snel. Combineer een golftrip naar Leinster met het nachtleven in Dublin en je zult een geweldige golfvakantie hebben.

Leinster bereiken is eenvoudig. Dublin Airport ligt in deze provincie en ligt slechts 10 km ten noorden van het stadscentrum van Dublin. Je kunt op verschillende manieren naar het stadscentrum van Dublin reizen, maar ook naar andere gebieden in Leinster.

Leinster

County Meath Golf Club

Well, we played co meath golf club or trim as its know locally and what a fantastic course it is, the fairways and the greens are in superb condition and the mature trees not only add to the scenery but also ad to the difficulty of the course but don't worry theres plenty of room for the average golfer, starts off with a lovely par3 and then 2 par 5s, so your into your swing very quickly,, the course, the clubhouse and a great choice of food, and the friendly staff make this a course well worth visiting anytime, highly recommended.

Palmerstown House Estate

Great course, long but wide fairways, plenty of water and variety, large clubhouse and good facilities, food always very good.

Mount Juliet Estate

A great parkland course, who’s relative newness doesn’t detract from it being a fantastic play and location just an hour and a half from Dublin. This beautiful Irish country Estate extends to approx 500 acres with the River Nore shaping its very existence as it dissects the 180-acre golf course. Completed just 30 years ago in 1991 Jack Nicklaus was called in to give it his signature treatment. Mount Juliet is fun to play, it’s takes in the established estate and works with the mass of water to bring that in play too. Measuring 7,000 yards it has been built to stage championship golf. The Irish Open was meant to be played here last year but wasn’t due to Covid. It is a number of years since I played Mount Juliet. I often wonder about changes that might have to happen to improve the course and whether those changes actually have improved it. It seemed pretty special to me when I played there! But what of its name? Several changes in name for the estate have included Waltons Grove and Kendals Grove, depending on who owed the Estate at that time. But as we all enjoy a good love story, it was the Earl of Carrick who named it Mount Juliet after his wife, Lady Julianna Butler, aka Juliet.

The Island Golf Club

Founded in 1890, The Island GC is one of the first twelve golf clubs in Ireland, and is the third oldest in Dublin, predating Portmarnock by four years. Despite its name, The island is not on an island but on a spur of land with the sea on three sides. For the first 100 years of the club's life, even up until 1973, access to the golf course was via boat, across the estuary from Malahide. In the early days, golfers would be dropped off for their round of golf. A large red and white disc hanging on the side of the clubhouse was the signal to the boatsmen to collect the golfers for their return. If the weather became inclement the only way back was around the inlet. Whilst today this poses no problem, back then it was a long and arduous journey. In fact, The Island is now only 15 minutes from Dublin Airport by road today. ⁠ Described as the definition of Links golf, The Island is one of the finest links courses with Fred Hawtree, Eddie Hackett and more recently Martin Hawtree having stakes in its evolving design. ⁠ ⁠ As the course is naturally nestled between some of the highest sand dunes in golf which is a test in itself for golfers. The introduction of the new front nine (completed 2020), leaves me wanting to go back and play The Island again …. and again. ⁠ ⁠ I loved playing on the greens at The Island, thinking how smooth (and fast) they were, they are a pleasure to play on. ⁠ ⁠ Who would have thought that in 1887 four men and a boat could have had the foresight to build a golf course on this beautiful peninsular. ⁠ A true traditional members golf club with nice friendly people to greet you. ⁠.

Portmarnock Golf Club

Geweldige golfbaan, nog nooit eerder op een baan gestaan van deze kwaliteit. Top, dit is in heel Nederland niet te vinden.

Killeen Castle Golf Club

Played recently in an Open Competition. Has to be one of the best decisions I've made. A really wonderful lay out and some fabulous holes. Very pleasant surroundings with the Castle as backdrop on many holes. Fairways and greens were in wonderful order particularly in mid December.

Excellent test of golf. The wind has to be mastered and wayward shots penalised. However the links course gives plenty of reward for accuracy and imagination. The bunkers are challenging and still a very enjoyable day of golf.

This course although it looks very pretty it's deceiving because you have to be extremely accurate. My game wasn't on point and I sent a lot of balls to the rough and sand bunkers. Jack Nicklaus designed this course to make it very painful if you're not accurate off the tee. Since the course was really wet, it was very difficult to get the ball out of the wet rough. I would love to one day return when the weather is more favourable. The facilities were world class.

Powerscourt Golf Club

I have mixed feelings about this one because it should be up there at the top. The place is gorgeous, I mean absolutely stunning and the price point is high. Greens and fairways are usually in great conditions. It really has everything to be a great golf club. But some noticeable things are lacking. The driving range is very poor for a place like that. The mats are in awful conditions. Lots of bunkers don't have rakes on the course. When they cut the rough near the summer they don't pick it up or clean after so it looks very messy/poorly maintained. A couple holes/greens are badly designed (18 east). And most of all the standard of maintenance has been going down over the last couple years. This place has huge potential but it's too expensive for what it is. A place like Blainroe (I assume is operating on a smaller budget) has better course conditions. It doesn't sound right to me.

I wanted to play the course the solheim cup was played on.

Leinster is één van de vier provincies van Ierland en ligt in het oosten van Ierland. De traditionele vlag van Leinster heeft een gouden harp op een groene achtergrond. In deze provincie ligt de hoofdstad van Ierland - Dublin. De Royal Curragh Golf Club - welke in County Kildare ligt - is de oudste golfbaan van Ierland en ook de oudste in Leinster. Er is bewijs dat in 1852 op de vlakten van de Curragh voor het eerst werd gegolfd. 