Spectacular revamp puts a new twist on the Old Head

The scope for golfing improvements at the world-renowned Old Head links in Cork is in the realm of the subjective at this stage — but the drive to turn near perfection to peerless continues, nonetheless.

Three years ago Links magazine in the US splashed the Old Head on its cover, declaring it the most spectacular links in the world.

“In your wildest fantasies,” it stated, “you couldn’t have imagined a golf course as striking.”