History Timeline

“Most of Ireland’s older Golf Clubs can point to a moment in their history when survival was on the line but none as dramatic as that experienced by Dooks.”
John de St Jorre, Legendary Golf Links of Ireland.

Dooks Golf Club, situated in a panoramic setting in a corner of Dingle Bay which is on the Wild Atlantic Way was founded in 1889 and is one of the ten oldest Golf Clubs in Ireland.

Golf was first played on this particular stretch of true sea-side links by soldiers from The Curragh (where golf came to Ireland in 1883), who were billeted in nearby Glenbeigh for artillery practice on the Rossbeigh dunes.