The Laytown & Bettystown Golf Club is at its most formidable when the breeze picks up off the Irish Sea. The course represents all that is great about links golf, while the greens are consistently smooth and true.

This traditional links has produced many fine international players, the best known of whom is Des Smyth. There are some fine holes in this stretch of links land, not least the par five (fourth) where it takes two perfect shots to reach and hold the plateau green. The toughest hole on the back is the 11th, a par four of 462yd. All in all, the par of 71 is a stiff target.