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Portstewart Golf Club Key Information
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| Address | 117 Strand Road, Portstewart, County Londonderry, BT55 7PG |
| Phone | 0044 (0) 28 7083 2015 |
| Website | portstewartgc.co.uk (opens in new tab) |
| reception@portstewartgc.co.uk | |
| GFs | £235 in peak season, £70 in winter |
| Visitor Times | Weekdays, weekend afternoons, subject to availability |
| Par | Men 72, Women 72 |
| Slope | White/M 124, Red/W 124 |
| Opened | 1992 |
| Architect | Willie Park Junior, Des Giffin |
Portstewart Golf Club
Golf Monthly Verdict
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Blessed with a wonderful location for golf, this exhilarating seaside course has a quite sensational front nine. It will be very interesting to observe the proposed changes take place to the back nine with the intention of creating an even better course that is still as spectacular but with a greater balance throughout.
Reasons To Play Portstewart
– One of the most beautiful, most exciting and most difficult opening holes in the Top 100
– A brilliant site for golf with towering dunes, the sea and the River Bann
– Eighteen holes of fun
Rankings
UK & Ireland Top 100 Golf Courses 2023/24 – 98
Portstewart Golf Club is not far from the world-famous Open Championship course at Royal Portrush, and its Strand Course is high in the list of the best golf courses in Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 1894, and with 54 holes of golf, it is the Strand Course that is the real star of the Portstewart show. The course evolved from an original design by Willie Park Junior that was subsequently given a very substantial makeover in the late 1980s when Des Giffin blended seven new holes with the existing layout to create one that is both beautiful to look at and exciting to play.
Such is the test of golf on offer at Portstewart that the Strand was selected to host the 2017 Irish Open, won by Jon Rahm who was very complimentary about the course. Partly on the back of this, it made its way into the Top 100 for the first time in 2019, and it is now rated as the third best in the country behind two absolute world-beaters, Royal County Down and Royal Portrush.
Highlights here include just about all of the phenomenal front nine, starting with the excellent dogleg-right opener. With such wonderful dunes in view, the anticipation as you stand on the first tee is huge. Here, an elevated drive takes you down to a rumpled fairway with the green waiting over 400 yards away as you start your golfing safari.
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