Malahide Golf Club (Blue/Red)

Overview: Malahide Golf Club ~ Blue/Red is the exact 18-hole pairing of the Blue and Red nines at Malahide’s 27-hole parkland complex in north County Dublin. The club describes 180 acres of mature wooded parkland developed to USGA standards, close to Malahide, Portmarnock and Dublin Airport. Blue/Red is therefore a visitor-relevant routing within a larger facility, not a standalone course with one fixed scorecard. The club’s current pages emphasise the three-nine structure but do not publish a single pair-specific par and yardage figure for this directory combination.

History: Malahide moved to its present Beechwood home in 1990. The course history combines several Irish and international design influences: Eddie Hackett is associated with the original layout, Michael Craddock with a later redevelopment, and Jeff Howes with major work on the Blue and Red nines. Jeff Lynch is also credited with project architecture in more recent improvements. The complex’s current identity is best understood as a layered 27-hole project rather than a single designer’s untouched plan.

Did You Know? Malahide’s three nines create a practical reason to preserve the pair name in search data. Blue/Red, Blue/Yellow and Red/Yellow can all be 18-hole rounds, but they do not mean the same sequence of holes. The facility’s proximity to the airport and Dublin’s coastal villages makes those routing labels useful to golfers planning a specific round.