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The Golfing Union of Ireland (GUI) was established in 1891, making it the oldest national golfing union in the world. [10] Based at Carton House, Maynooth, as of 2018, it represented 430 golf clubs and 170,000 members.
The Irish Open (Irish: Comórtas Oscailte na hÉireann), [1] currently titled as the Amgen Irish Open for sponsorship reasons, is a professional golf tournament on the European Tour. The Irish Open was first played in 1927 and was played annually, except for the war years, until 1950.
The Irish PGA Championship, formerly the Irish Professional Championship and colloquially known as the Irish Professional Close or National Championship, is a golf tournament that is played annually in Ireland since 1907. It is one of the oldest golf tournaments in the world, the oldest in the country, and has been played at many different golf ...
The Irish Amateur Open Championship is an amateur golf tournament held annually in Ireland and organised by the Golf Ireland. The championship has been played as a 72-hole stroke-play event since 1958.
The new combined body, "Golf Ireland", commenced in 2020, and held its first general meeting (and ratified its first board and association president) in February 2021. [5] [4] As of mid-2021, the Golf Ireland website stated that it is "the single governing body for golf in Ireland. Established in 2020 it continues on from the Golfing Union of ...
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. The modern game of golf is generally considered to be a Scottish invention.A spokesman for The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, one of the oldest Scottish golf organisations, said "Stick and ball games have been around for many centuries, but golf as we know it today, played over 18 holes, clearly originated in Scotland."
The Women's Irish Open is a professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour (LET), held in the Republic of Ireland.. The tournament became part of the LET schedule in 1994 and ran for ten editions through 2003.
The Irish Championship Meeting Professional Tournament was a series of golf tournaments played in Ireland. The Irish Championship Meeting had been instituted in 1892 by the Golfing Union of Ireland. The main event was the Irish Amateur Open Championship but in a number of years a professional tournament was also held at the meeting. A total of ...