Every course in Ireland - ranked, categorised and analysed for the things golfers actually care about.
Courses grouped by theme. Every obsession covered. Pick yours.
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Day 1
Golf Round
Portmarnock
Co. Dublin
Tourist Stop
Guinness Storehouse
Day 2
Golf Round
Waterville
Co. Kerry
Tourist Stop
Cliffs of Moher
Day 3
Golf Round
Lahinch
Co. Clare
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Plan Your Own Trip →Everything you need to know about GemTees and finding your perfect round in Ireland.
GemTees is an independent website dedicated to Irish golf. Whether you’re an international golfer planning a bucket-list trip or a domestic player seeking your next weekend challenge, GemTees gives you the insights to find your perfect golf experience.
Covering every track in Ireland, we give you simple tools to discover and explore new courses and locations - whatever level you play at.
We even make it easy for you to pick the best overnight base on our golf towns page.
Note: GemTees is a fully independent information provider and not a part of Golf Ireland, USGA, R&A or any other governing body.
Simply put, we’re building a better model. A truly unbiased view of Irish golf courses not influenced by corporate golf budgets and big advertising.
Golf magazine rankings show you the most well known courses. We help you find the course that's the absolute best for you. Everything we do is impartial and backed by real data.
Here’s how GemTees is different:
 | Golf Magazine Lists | |
|---|---|---|
| Course insights using data, reviews & golfer opinions | Courses rated by just a few panelists | |
| Independent and balanced | Influenced by spend of big-name courses | |
| Covers every course in Ireland | ||
| Surface hidden gems | View well-known courses only | |
| Updated weekly | Updated once per year | |
| Intelligent search & course finder filters | Basic filters on just a handful of select courses | |
| Find courses based on characteristics | ||
| Build custom itineraries & share with friends | No planning tools. |
No, we do not get paid to write about courses. Our goal is to give a fair and balanced view of the depth of Irish golf. We want you to be as informed and excited about a 9 hole local in Kildare as a championship ‘world’s-best’ on the other side of the country.
Yes, always! GemTees started as a way to find the right course for the right golfer. Every piece of content is written by golfers - speaking the language of the game. We all love telling our friends about the courses we’ve played - the tricky, the monsters, the tight ones and the hidden gems. This is a space you already know how to use. Made by players to help you unlock more from Irish golf.
Yes we can. We suggest you first check our sections below to get an idea of what you might be looking for.
Once you’ve got some ideas, you can reach out to our team here and we can advise on specific courses and stops that might be right for you.
Our golf concierge team can help arrange tee times for multi-day trips (contact us here). We don’t support accessing tee-times for single golf days.
Collections are our shortcuts to making course discovery more fun and intuitive. As players we all have preferences for certain types of tracks that suit our game. Collections are groups of courses that share these common characteristics. Have a look - you might be surprised by what you find.
Our concierge team can support with quotes and tee-times bookings for multi-day trips. For individual rounds, check the course details page on GemTees for the fastest link to book a tee-time.
We build it! We’re making the most complete database on Irish golf in the world. That means we fully review all course information ourselves. We combine things like in-person course visits, reviews, hole-by-hole measurement, stats from third parties and crowd-sourced opinions to build a profile on each course. We plan to manually review every hole in Ireland and are already well underway.
Yes. We update our database and website 2-5 times per week. That’s a lot more than large magazine-style publishers that do Top 100 rankings once per year.
A question that will always start a fine argument! To see our latest course rankings, check out our course finder page and filter by National Rank. Remember, don’t just stop at the top 10 - GemTees lets you dig deeper so apply some filters like course type, difficulty and green-fees to find the best course for you.