Royal County Down is one of the most beautiful courses in the world, a picturesque slice of heaven that sits at the foothills of the Mourne Mountains along the Irish Sea.
But it is also brutally tough, so tough that it could host the Open Championship year after year—although that could lead to more mental breakdowns among tour pros than we would like to see.
Nevertheless, the Championship Links in Newcastle, Northern Ireland, welcome the best players on the DP World Tour for this week’s Amgen Irish Open, which returns to Royal County Down for the first time since 2015. That year, Soren Kjeldsen of Denmark won in a
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