When St. Marnock established his Monastery on the east coast of north County Dublin he could not have forseen that his name would be dedicated to a Mecca of golf, rather than an ecclesiastical institution.

The Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links is the first golf course International Management Group (IMG) developed in Ireland, as part of its medium term plan to develop tournament standard golf courses throughout Europe.

The strategic location of the course (only 15 minutes from Dublin Airport and 25 minutes from Dublin's city centre) combined with the perceptive planning by Bernhard Langer in association with Stan Eby of European Golf Design; provide all the necessary ingredients for the links purist.

A leading Golf Architect, after playing the links was moved to say: "when God was making the World he laid out the dunes and terrain so that one day a great Golf Links would be sited here." Bernhard Langer has certainly accomplished this feat in a refreshing new golf creation.

"(Looking at)...The Links at Portmarnock is like looking at an old painting after it has been restored: The colours appear fresh and rich, with the bunkers sharp and well defined. And you find yourself wondering if this is how the great historical links courses like St Andrews would have looked just after the final piece of turf had been laid in place."