Jameson Golf Links
The newly rebranded Jameson Golf Links is but a 5-minute drive from the famous Portmarnock Golf Club.
Anyone who knows about whisky, or in this case ‘whiskey’, will know the name Jameson, by far the best-selling Irish blend.
Produced in Bow Street near the banks of the River Liffey, it was a Scot, John Jameson who first established the Dublin distillery. A lawyer from Alloa, Jameson married into the Haig family, one of Scotland’s earliest distillers with premises at Cameron Bridge, Windygates in Fife.
Portmarnock Resort & Jameson Golf Links
There was an easily understood confusion between Portmarnock Golf Club and Portmarnock Resort’s own course. The two superb links lie on the same sandy shores, 5 minutes from each other and 20 minutes east of Dublin Airport. Formerly known as Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links, the rebranding makes the newly rebranded Jameson Golf Links stand out. But to further distinguish the rolling links course, a 2 year, multi-million Euro upgrade to Bernhard Langer’s original 1995 design has brought Jameson Golf Links to the fore!
A PLACE TO STAY
If you do venture this way, the place to stay is unquestionably the Portmarnock Resort. Originally built by John Jameson III, the grandson of the distillery founder. Encouraged by the advent of the railway that transported him into the centre of Dublin to oversee operations at the distillery.
PORTMARNOCK GOLF CLUB
John III took a keen interest in golf and practised a rudimentary form of the game on the dune grassy dunes just south of his home. In 1893, two Scotsmen, William Pickeman and George Ross, rowed a small rowing boat to the peninsula from Burrow Beach and realised it was perfect for a proper layout. A year later, 9 holes opened for play with Mungo Park, winner of the 1874 Open Championship at Musselburgh Old course brought over to do the design and become Portmarnock’s first professional.
Two years later, another Scot, George Coburn, extended the course to eighteen holes. Pickeman was the driving force behind Portmarnock’s beginnings and went on to design other courses in Ireland.
and became president of the club.
Portmarnock Golf Club has long been one of Ireland’s and is currently under serious consideration to host a future Open.
