Sand, sea and sunsets: A history of Enniscrone Golf Club

By Kevin Markham

It was a long time ago when I first visited Enniscrone. I was 13 and I played a links that Eddie Hackett designed in 1970. The course had been here since the 1930s but now holes slipped into the big dunes that divided the links from Killala Bay. It was also in 1970 that Hackett extended Enniscrone to 18 holes. Such an expansion was a long-held dream of the golfers who called this club home… but in what has become a common theme of the past five decades, Enniscrone was never happy to rest. Instead, the push for improvement and expansion, be it to the course, the facilities or the clubhouse, continued year after year.