Course Review
Royal Dublin Golf Club
dublin, Ireland
one of the oldest and most prestigious golf links in Ireland
AMW Faves List
Favorite Par 3 – #7 – tough par 3 but fair, beautifully designed!
Favorite Par 4 – #10 – challenges you to play the hole as it was intended.
Favorite Par 5 – #14 – has a little bit of everything yet still a fair hole to play.
Favorite Hole Design – #18 – just a fantastic finishing hole, worthy of the Royal crest.
Easiest Hole – #16 – just play it smart and you will walk away smiling!
Hardest Hole – #1 – for an opening hole, the first at Royal Dublin is just plain long and hard.
Favorite Extra Sighting – the rakes on the course! A very smart concept.
Favorite Apres Golf – walk around the upstairs of the Royal Dublin’s clubhouse, have a drink overlooking the course.
Where to Stay – Portmarnock Golf Resort, Merrion (Dublin), Shelbourne (Dublin)
Where to Eat – Royal Dublin clubhouse
PLAN AHEAD
Course Details
Address: North Bull Island Nature Reserve, Dollymount, Dublin 3, Ireland
Telephone: +353 (0)1 833 6346
Website: theroyaldublingolfclub.com
Director of Golf: John Dwyer
Architect: Captain William Bligh (original); Harry Colt (first redesign); Martin Hawtree (second redesign)
Year Open: 1889 (original); 1920 (first redesign); 2006 (second redesign)
Greens Fees: ⛳️⛳️⛳️⛳️
Yardage: Blue – 7265; White – 6907; Yellow – 6462; Red – 5987
What You Need to Know
It's AMW Story Time!
It began in Dublin on 19 Grafton Street,
A Scotsman and others together they would meet.
To build a course just north of town,
A Royal name granted straight from the crown.
Located on Bull Island - the north end it would be,
A links for the ages, with history you see.
Golfers will be challenged and set to the test,
Royal Dublin deserves every bit of the of the crest.
Let’s set the scene. Men and women in high society Dublin, hustling and bustling around the street of Grafton, building 19 to be exact.. It was 1885 and golf had just reached the Irish shores a few decades earlier (at Curragh…south of Dublin). John Lumsden, a Scottish banker scheduled a meeting in the city for the opportunity of establishing a new golf club on the grounds of Phoenix Park, just over a mile west of Dublin. It was approved and the Dublin Golf Club was established. Unfortunately, due to fatal stabbings of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, the club moved from Phoenix Park to Sutton just a year later. By 1889, the golf club found a new and final piece of land, this time on North Bull Island.
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