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Westport - Par 73 - 6,950 yards
The one that will live in the memory of everyone is surely the par five 15th. You stand on a cliffside and drive over an inlet of the Atlantic ocean to a fairway that is about 150 yards as the crow flies - though it looks further!
On the skyline is the majesty of Ireland's holy mountain Croagh Patrick (where St. Patrick fasted for 40 days). The second shot is again around the shoreline...where you might be tempted to go for the carry over another inlet. Unless your name is John Daly don't even think about it!
This is one of Ireland's most scenic and beautiful courses. Build your score on the first five holes is the local advice, and then try to hold onto the shots as you face into the brilliant 6th (453 yards to a well-bunkered plateau), and the redoubtable 9th (202 yards...some of it over wilderness).
But nothing can prepare you for the majesty of Croagh Patrick on the skyline as you face into the 13th (played off a hillside down to a green overlooking the Atlantic), or the devious uphill 16th (par 4 - 363 yards) to a pin that is devishly difficult to find. You'll remember the 15th...Ireland's answer to Pebble Beach.
Enniscrone - Par 72 - 6,423 yards
The debate will rage forever about the "best" holes on this beautiful peace of linksland at Killala Bay in County Mayo. You'll certainly remember the quality of that unique links soil...but surely the most spectacular hole is sixteen where the drive is partially blind. Here you must skirt dangerously close to an out of bounds on the right to get far enough down the fairway to play it as a difficult four instead of a "safe" five. you are then confronted by the second shot on this 403 yard hole - uphill to a green that seems to be 100 feet in the air! Double figure scores are not uncommon on this marvellously entertaining hole unless your name is Pat Young.
Unusually, this course starts with two par fives. Not an enormous test, but they get you in the mood to play golf, and they are not easily clubbed for the third shot if you are doing a "lay up job".
The fourth, again, is a par five but another type of test altogether where the tee shot has to be placed, the second played to avoid bunkers and down slopes all of which brings you face to face with a heavily contoured green.
Ten is a drive and a pitch, but the drive is played from a tee where the view of the Bay will take your breath away.
Make sure you have regained your breath for sixteen.
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