Tralee, perched on the edge of the incomparably dramatic cost of County Kerry, is the first golf course that Arnold Palmer designed in Europe. Opened in 1984, the course is located eight miles northwest of the town of Barrow.

The course covers about 6900 yards which gives the appearance of being two courses rather than one. The outward half is gentler while the back nine holes are saturated with extraordinarily wild and massive dunes.

The desolate beach running alongside the second hole was used in filming scenes in the Oscar winning movie Ryan's Daughter in 1968, while the beach across the narrow neck of water beside the 15th tee is where Sir Roger Casement landed from a German submarine on Good Friday, 1916. He was arrested and subsequently hanged a short time later.

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