Ireland · Links Golf
Both are Irish links, and that's about where the resemblance ends. Lahinch is a village course on the Clare coast, quirky and vertical, full of blind shots and dunes you climb rather than walk around. Portmarnock is level and honest, laid out on a peninsula north of Dublin where you can see nearly every shot you have to hit and still get it wrong the moment the wind turns. Play Portmarnock if you want a fair examination and a short drive from the airport. Play Lahinch if you want the round you didn't see coming.
| Detail | Lahinch Golf Club | Portmarnock Golf Club |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Lahinch | Portmarnock |
| Region | Clare | Fingal |
| Holes | 18 | Not recorded |
| Par | 72 | Not recorded |
| Course type | Links | Not recorded |
| Established | Not recorded | 1894 |
We only compare courses that both meet Birdied's quality bar for a public page and sit in the same country, and every pair here is chosen by hand rather than generated. The table shows only facts we actually hold: a row appears when we have the detail for at least one of the two courses, and a fact nobody has given us is left out rather than guessed at. Ratings and round counts come from the rounds our members log, so they change as people play.