Enniscrone is overrated. I thought so the first time I played it, in 2022, and I did not entirely trust myself, an unfamiliar course and a middling round can turn anybody into a critic. So when we built this September's trip I put it back on the schedule specifically to find out whether I had been unfair.

Set beneath the Mourne Mountains along the shores of Dundrum Bay in Northern Ireland, Royal County Down is a links course that feels utterly timeless.