Shannon Golf Club

Overview: Shannon Golf Club comprises eighteen holes of course beside Shannon Airport in County Clare. The club describes a 6,763-yard layout designed by John D Harris, positioned to serve the west of Ireland’s airport and Wild Atlantic Way travel corridor. The course is a visitor-facing inland venue rather than a seaside links, with the surrounding Shannon landscape giving it a broad, open feel. Its exact current par is not stated consistently in the source material reviewed, so that field remains blank rather than being inferred from an older card.

History: The club was established in 1966 and credits John D Harris with designing the course as a major championship layout of international standard. Irish golf history material also connects the site’s early development with local initiative and the airport community. Shannon’s story is therefore unusually tied to modern transport infrastructure: it was built as a full golf destination in a region where the airport makes west-coast Ireland accessible to international golfers.

Did You Know? The course is close enough to Shannon Airport that it can function as a first-round or final-round stop on an Irish golf trip. That is a travel fact, but it also explains the club’s design history: the course was conceived as a substantial 18-hole venue for an internationally connected part of County Clare, not simply as a small local nine.