It’s a rare week in professional golf when the golf course is the star. Royal County Down, on rugged, windblown topography along the Irish Sea and beneath the Mountains of Mourne, hosts the 2024 Amgen ...

A little over a year ago, I traveled to Northern Ireland on assignment for Golf Digest. My account of that trip, called The Adventure of a Lifetime, was mostly about Royal County Down, in Newcastle -- ...

Did you know the Royal County Down golf course was once voted the best in the world by Golf Digest magazine’s list of “The World’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses”? They referred to the golf course in 2016, ...

The evolution over more than 130 years of this design is fascinating and has yielded what many consider to be the game’s finest front nine. Blind tee shots abound, in brilliant fashion at such holes ...

GOLF’s Top 100 course panelists are among the most respected and well-traveled course evaluators in the game. They’re also keen to share their opinions. In this new GOLF.com series, we’ll be granting ...

Is there a greater bucket list course in the world than the Championship Links at Royal County Down? Augusta National, St Andrews and Pebble Beach might have something to say about that, but it is the ...