"Where
the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea" that's
where you'll find The Royal County Down Golf Club, one of
Ireland's oldest, most scenic and highly rated golf courses.
Situated
thirty mile south of Belfast, it is laid out beneath the gaze
of the Mountains of Mourne and fringed by the impressive sweep
of Dundrum Bay. As well as it being one of the worlds most
beautiful courses, it is also one of the most challenging,
with great swathes of heather and gorse lined fairways beneath
vast sand hills, and wild grassy faced bunkers guarding subtly
contoured green. It is spectacular to look at and even more
thrilling to play.
"Royal
County Down is a pure links, in the truest sense of the word.
My advice to anyone playing this great course is to keep it
very straight off the tee - stray from the fairways at your
peril! It is a tremendous test of golf and the outward half
especially is as fine a nine holes as I have ever played"
TOM WATSON