Development of Doonbeg Golf Club

Development History

The Doonbeg Golf Club course is the product of the creative genius of Greg Norman augmented by the experienced golf design team of Kiawah Development Partners.

Designed along the towering dunes on a crescent of Ireland's famed southwestern shore between Lahinch and Ballybunion, Greg Norman says, "This is the best piece of property I have seen anywhere in the world."

Doonbeg was first considered as a site for a golf course over a hundred years ago, but due to better accessibility and transportation, the Lahinch site was chosen instead.

Also recognizing the potential for this rare land by the sea, the Doonbeg Community Development Company formed a special golf sub-committee in the mid 1990s to promote a course here at Doughmore Bay in Doonbeg Parish. At the urging of this hardworking sub-committee, Shannon Development, a governmental entity in Shannon, Ireland, obtained options to purchase some 380 acres of land from four neighboring farming families at Doonbeg. continue >>

Click here for more on Greg Norman with the Kiawah Development Partners...

Click here for more on the dunes at Doonbeg...