Just as The O'Meara reflects personality, so too do the 18 holes designed by Colin Montgomerie in association with Stan Eby of European Golf Design, which opened in June 2003 to critical acclaim.

Colin Montgomerie expressed his delight with the course - "This is a unique project and I am privileged to be associated with it. You can't call it a links course, but it plays like a links and has all the characteristics of a links. In designing this course, I attempted to go back to a more traditional course".

"I looked at the great courses around the world - Royal Melbourne, Troon, Turnberry - and worked out what is so good about them. One thing that springs to mind - bunkering. They are hazards and they work with the prevailing wind. Few holes are straight up and down the wind but tend to be across, which brings the bunkering into play. This is the kind of course where the best players would always come out on top".

Cut through rolling meadows and punctuated by native fescue, The Montgomerie blends a storybook setting with the exciting qualities of links golf. Here, the fairways run firm and fast. The intelligent bunker complexes demand strategic and shotmaking excellence and the ground game is always in play.

The Montgomerie has everything that that helps to make golf so fascinating. At full stretch - 7,300 yards - this links style creation is championship stuff.

Winner of "Best New Design of the Year 2004"

Award - Golf World, January 2005

Ranked 10th in Ireland by Golf Digest magazine - April 2005

Host to the 2005 & 2006 Nissan Irish Open

Host to the 2004 AIB Irish Amatuer Open