ROYAL PORTRUSH

Unlike Royal County Down, which has gorse and heather in abundance, Royal Portrush is a traditional links built among huge sand dunes right on the northernmost coast of Ireland. It is the only course outside mainland Britain to have hosted the Open Championship.

Royal Portrush has, arguably, the best opening hole of any of the Irish links -- an uphill par four to a generous green guarded on one side by deep bunkers and with a very steep drop to the left. After that the holes that follow are superb, the fairways thread their way through the dunes and although the greens are large, you have to be accurate or three putting is all too easy.

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