This is one of Ireland's Big Six. The links of the European Club was voted one of Ireland's six greatest golf courses in 1995 in the company of Portmarnock, Royal Portrush, Royal County Down, Ballybunion and Waterville. Golfers seldom get to play as close to the ocean as they do on the twelfth and thirteenth holes at The European Club where many players get to flounder on the actual beach ! The links of The European Club has been designed to perpetuate and modernize the traditional values of links golf. The combination of rugged dunes, deep bunkers, sea breezes and large undulating greens calls on the golfer to display strength of character, an ability to think and shot making skills. Fast running fairways, greens that invite the pitch-and-run approach and acres of tall, waving marram grass and golden-flowered gorse are the very essence of golf as it was at the beginning and was always meant to be.