Three days. Fifty-four holes. Links, clifftop and parkland. Epic views, proper golf holes, and a running contest to see who can actually play all three.
The combined summer visitor rate is €165.
That is not just value. In a country where a single marquee round can run €400–€500, it is unrivalled value.
Draw a rough triangle between Spanish Point, Kilkee and Kilrush. Three clubs, a short drive apart, and none of them play like the others.
Spanish Point — traditional links │ Kilkee — clifftop coastal golf │ Kilrush — inland parkland
Spanish Point is traditional links. Kilkee is clifftop coastal golf. Kilrush is inland parkland — and the best course of the three.
Play 18 at each and you have 54 holes of West Clare golf for less than €200. Three lads can come down, play for three days, and spend less on green fees than some trips spend on one tee time.
Then keep the cards.
The point of the triangle is not only that it is cheap. It is that it asks a different question every day.
54 holes, three courses, €165
| Golf Club | Style | What you play | Visitor fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish Point Golf Club | Traditional links | 9 holes, played twice for 18 | €55 May–Sept |
| Kilkee Golf Club | Clifftop coastal | 18 holes | €75 July–Sept |
| Kilrush Golf Club | Parkland | 18 holes | €35 standard |
€55 + €75 + €35 = €165.
Check the clubs before you book, because green fees move. The basic proposition does not.
You are getting quality links, serious clifftop holes, and a parkland course you would play again on its own.
Variety like that is usually a week-long itinerary.
Here it is one pocket of Clare.
Spanish Point: the links day
Start on the Atlantic.
Spanish Point is a nine-hole links beside the sea. For 18, you go around again. The May–September visitor rate is €55, and visitors playing 18 book the second nine for a later tee time.
That second loop is how the triangle becomes 54 holes rather than 45.
It is also how a small links earns its day on the card.
You are not arriving for a grand resort experience. You are arriving to play links golf: wind, turf and traditional coastal golf.
For €55, that is the traditional side of the trip.
Irish links does not have to mean a famous name and a full day built around one tee time.
Spanish Point Golf Club
Spanish Point, Miltown Malbay · Links
A compact nine-hole links beside the Atlantic at Spanish Point, playable as either nine or eighteen holes.
Kilkee: the clifftop day
Day two, the golf goes up onto the cliffs.
Kilkee Golf Club is an 18-hole coastal course at the East End of Kilkee, grown from an original nine-hole layout.
It is not a links course.
Spanish Point already gave you that.
Kilkee is a different kind of Atlantic golf. The course sits above the coast, with holes looking out over Chimney Bay and the kind of views people come to Clare for even when they are not playing.
The golf is the point, though.
There are clifftop holes here that would be the talk of a much more expensive round.
The standard visitor rate from July to September is €75.
After two days you have spent €130 and played two completely different forms of coastal golf.
The scenery is epic.
The golf has not repeated itself.
Kilkee Golf Club
Kilkee · Coastal
An 18-hole coastal course above Kilkee, with several early holes overlooking the Atlantic and Chimney Bay.
Kilrush: the parkland day — and the best golf
Day three, you turn inland.
If you came for ocean, this is the round that looks easiest to treat as the cheap extra.
It is the one that decides the contest.
Kilrush Golf Club is an 18-hole parkland course at Parknamoney, and it is the best golf of the three.
Not the best view.
The best course.
The club was founded in 1934 as a nine-hole layout and expanded to 18 in 1994, with Arthur Spring designing the new holes.
Thirty years of member planting has turned it into a mature parkland course: tree-lined driving, proper approach shots and greens that ask you to be patient.
It rewards a proper round in a way the other two, for all their setting, do not.
It is a member-run club, looked after by people who play it every week.
You can feel that.
The standard visitor green fee is €35.
That is the steal inside the steal.
Spanish Point gives you the links.
Kilkee gives you the cliffs.
Kilrush gives you the round you would book again on its own — and it is the day that sorts out who can actually play golf when the wind and the views are no longer doing the talking.
Kilrush Golf Club
Kilrush, Parknamoney · Parkland
A member-run 18-hole parkland course just outside Kilrush, offering a lower-cost alternative to the premium links of West Clare.
Run it as a three-day contest
This is the trip for three lads who want 54 holes of quality golf for a steal, not a once-a-year pilgrimage to one famous first tee.
Play Spanish Point on day one.
Kilkee on day two.
Kilrush on day three.
Keep one card for the week.
Stableford works.
So does a pound a hole.
So does bragging rights and nothing else.
The question is who can handle all three: traditional links, exposed clifftop golf and a proper parkland test.
That is a much more interesting argument than who shot the lowest number at the most expensive course.
If Doonbeg is already on the itinerary, Kilrush is only around ten minutes away. You can still play the triangle around it — see golf near Doonbeg for the wider west Clare picture.
If the wider trip is heading for Kerry, Killimer ferry is roughly ten minutes from Kilrush. Play the parkland, cross to Tarbert in about 20 minutes, and keep going south — playing golf in Clare and Kerry on one route.
The triangle does not need either of those extras. For affordable golf in Clare more broadly, or a longer west Clare golf trip along the N67, both sit naturally alongside this loop.
Fifty-four holes, three types of golf, epic views, and a contest over three days.
Combined green fees of €165.
You do not find that anywhere else in Irish golf at this price.
