The best and cheapest way to play top Irish courses

Ireland’s Golf Challenges are reaching a global audience, but also making many of the country’s best courses accessible to those at home, writes Kevin Markham.

Many Irish golfers state emphatically that they will never pay over €50 to play a golf course.

Sticking to your principles is admirable but it does mean that dozens of Ireland’s (and the world’s) best courses are beyond your grasp. There are plenty of very good courses which can be played for less than that, but not many exceptional ones. It’s the economic law of supply and demand.