Ballybunion Old pictures

Number nine in Golf Monthly's Top 100 courses. In 1897 an article in the Irish Times, dismissed Ballybunion with some contempt as "a rabbit warren below the village, where a golfer requires limitless patience and an inexhaustible supply of golf balls." Sitting at number 9 in our Top 100, you can be sure this is so very far from the truth now.

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