Portmarnock, Ireland
"Portmarnock is a slender peninsula on the Irish Sea, some eight miles from the center of Dublin. Water frames this linksland — sand-based, low dunes, overall elevation change of perhaps 12 feet — on three sides. A very narrow paved road gets us there, but we have the feeling, once we've arrived, of being a sea. Here a player is alone with the terrain, the sea, the sky, and the oft-ruinous wind. Members, instictively checking the anemometer on a clubhouse wall before heading to the first tee, are relieved to find it reading only 20 miles per hour."