Royal County Down is a links course that is renowned worldwide as one of the finest links test in the world. The first nine are ranked by many as the finest opening nine anywhere although this does not imply that there is anything second rate about the inward half
There is little time to enjoy the scenery here, although it can provide a soothing distraction from the testing examination posed by the golf course.
Accuracy from the tee is critical, there is little room for error and those errors are severely punished, whether by the infamous Royal County Down rough, the many hundreds of bunkers that litter the course or the impossible seaside shrubbery, especially the magnifcent yellow gorse, that line the fairways.
Designer: Old Tom Morris
Par: 71
Length: 7037 yards