Overview
The northwest is where you go when you want to feel like you’ve found something. The courses here are exceptional — Enniscrone, County Sligo, Donegal — but the roads between them are quiet, the scenery is vast, and the pace is entirely different from the more travelled circuits.
Day 1: Arrival & Enniscrone
Fly into Knock or Sligo, drive straight to Enniscrone. This is a proper dunes links — big, dramatic, and completely natural. The sandhills here are among the tallest in Ireland.
Day 2: County Sligo (Rosses Point)
Rosses Point sits on a peninsula with Benbulben visible behind every tee shot. WB Yeats grew up nearby and wrote about this landscape. The golf is every bit as memorable.
Day 3: Donegal Golf Club (Murvagh)
Further north. Murvagh is built into a peninsula in Donegal Bay — remote, exposed, and spectacular. Bring an extra layer.
Day 4: Ballyliffin
The Old Links and the Glashedy Links. Either one is worth the drive to the Inishowen Peninsula — together, they make for one of the great golf days in Ireland.
Day 5: Departure
Drive south to Knock or back to Dublin. The roads up here are worth taking slowly.