Donegal Golf Club - lying in the bosom of Donegal Bay, this superb links occupies an elegant peninsula which is backed by the magnificent Bluestack Mountains and bounded by the North-West Atlantic. Often described as the Muirfield of Ireland, similar in terrain with two loops of nine holes and yet it is on a peninsula like the great St. Andrews. Donegal Golf Club on the Murvagh peninsula in Donegal Bay, hence it is generally known as Murvagh, just six miles from Donegal Town, one mile off the N15 on the south side. The links is isolated from the outside world by a forest of evergreens washed on one side by the great Atlantic Ocean and with a panoramic view of the Bluestack Mountains.

The word links is of Scottish derivation 'rough ground that lies by the sea' and so with Murvagh. Here through the centuries animals grazed among the rabbit warrens and the few human inhabitants planted their crops on the more moist ground near the shoreline from where they augmented their meagre diet with the now fashionable shellfish of oysters, mussels etc., and so Eddie Hackett was employed to mould the new with the old.