Ballybunion Old Course

Ballybunion Old Course rises out of the dunes above the Shannon estuary in north Kerry, a links the club has played since 1893 and which reached eighteen holes in 1927 before Tom Simpson refined it in 1936. It plays 6,739 yards to a par of 71, with five par 3s, nine par 4s and four par 5s, and turns from a quiet opening beside the town into a cliffline stretch at the seventh, eleventh, sixteenth…