Legendary Golf Links of Ireland

The great links of Ireland, even more so than those of Scotland, suggest that if God had elected another profession than deity, he could surely have made it as a golf architect. There is a magical, natural, deistic aspect to these Irish courses that one feels as much as sees. Another factor, which Edgeworth's photographs perfectly get: in Ireland, one feels the nearness, the presence, of the sea more dramatically you might say viscerally than on comparable Scottish or English links. It's always there, frequently ferocious, always breathtaking.