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The Irish Golfer Magazine Top 100 Irish Course Ranking 2018.
Congratulations to the clubs included and commiserations to those that just missed out.

THE TOP 100 LIST
1. Portmarnock
2. Royal Portrush
3. Royal County Down
4. Lahinch
5. Ballybunion (Old)
6. Waterville
7. County Louth
8. The Island
9. Tralee
10. The European
11. County Sligo
12. Ballyliffin (Glashedy)
13. Enniscrone
14. Carne
15. K Club (Palmer)
16. Portsalon
17. Ballyliffin (Old)
18. Royal Dublin
19. Trump International Doonbeg
20. Mount Juliet
21. Donegal
22. Killeen Castle
23. Slieve Russell
24. Fota Island
25. Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links
26. Dooks
27. Portstewart (Strand)
28. Narin & Portnoo
29. Lough Erne
30. Old Head
31. Rosapenna (Sandy Hills)
32. Carton House (Montgomerie)
33. Connemara
34. Druids Glen
35. Luttrellstown Castle
36. Carlow
37. Cork
38. Royal Portrush (Valley)
39. Killarney (Killeen)
40. Castlerock
41. Headfort (New)
42. Belvoir Park
43. Rosapenna (Old Tom Morris)
44. The Heritage
45. Strandhill
46. Malone
47. Powerscourt (West)
48. Ballybunion (Cashen)
49. Portumna
50. Dromoland Castle

51. K Club (Smurfit)
52. Galway Bay
53. New Forest
54. Carton House (O'Meara)
55. Concra Wood
56. Hermitage
57. Rathsallagh
58. Rosslare
59. Galgorm Castle
60. Tullamore
61. Palmerstown House Estate
62. St. Anne's
63. St. Margaret's
64. Moyvalley
65. Castle
66. Bunclody
67. Galway
68. Arklow
69. Castlemartyr
70. Mount Wolseley
71. Grange
72. Esker Hills
73. Royal Belfast
74. Macreddin
75. Powerscourt (East)
76. Killarney (Mahony's Point)
77. Ardglass
78. Farnham Estate
79. Westport
80. Hilton Templepatrick
81. Clandeboye (Dufferin)
82. North West
83. Mullingar
84. Dun Laoghaire
85. Seapoint
86. Laytown & Bettystown
87. Balbriggan
88. Headfort (Old)
89. Tramore
90. Dingle
91. Tulfarris
92. Royal Curragh
93. Naas
94. Glasson
95. Ballinrobe
96. Waterford Castle
97. Castletroy
98. Royal County Down (Annesley)
99. Grange Castle
100. Royal Tara

Note: Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Club and  Hogs Head were excluded from consideration as both were closed to the public at time of publication.