The Wild West

Standing proudly alongside the veranda of Rosapenna’s impressive clubhouse or ‘Golf Pavilion’, aiming a drive towards the far end of the links where the beautiful sandy bay curves into the distance, is a fine statue of the grandfather of golf, Old Tom Morris. It was Old Tom who was responsible for the first course to be laid out on this superb stretch of golfing terrain and it’s after him that a course comprising nine of his original holes is named.

Much has changed since the early 1890s when Old Tom first visited Rosapenna to survey an untouched, rugged swathe of linksland. Now the Rosapenna Hotel and Golf Resort, set on the beautiful north coast of County Donegal by the village of Downings on Sheephaven Bay, is one of the very best