Lahinch Golf Club is known as the St Andrews of Ireland — a County Clare links laid out by Old Tom Morris, redesigned by Dr Alister MacKenzie, and restored by Dr Martin Hawtree. In September 2026 it hosts the 51st Walker Cup. In this video, we celebrate it's story.

Founded in 1892 by Limerick golfers and Black Watch officers stationed nearby, the club invited Old Tom Morris to make full use of the giant sandhills above Liscannor Bay in 1894. Morris called it the finest natural links he had seen, and two of his holes — the blind par-5 Klondyke and the par-3 Dell — are still played today, untouched and unapologetic.

In 1927 Alister MacKenzie arrived. A year of work gave Lahinch its tiered greens, its angled approaches and the strategic spine that still defines the Old Course. MacKenzie predicted it would become "the finest and most popular course" he or anyone else had ever built — a claim he made before Augusta National, Cypress Point or Royal Melbourne.

📍 Lahinch Golf Club, Lahinch, County Clare, Ireland
🏆 Host of the 51st Walker Cup, 5–6 September 2026 (Great Britain & Ireland v United States)
🏆 Host of the 2019 Irish Open, won by Jon Rahm
🏆 Home of the South of Ireland Championship since 1895

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