Dublin Golf Club v Royal Belfast Golf Club
Saturday, 30 October 1886
Venue: The residence of Mr Thomas Gilroy, Mornington House, Coney Hall, Mornington, Co. Meath
Upon the invitation of Mr Thomas Gilroy to open the new links laid out by him on a “beautifully situated spot as the mouth of the Boyne”
Royal Belfast Golf Club Dublin Golf Club George L. Baillie Tom Gilroy H. J. Johnson K. MacDonald A. Daig J. Stewart P. H. Charley H. Roberts Colonel Lyon-Campbell E. C. Jackson W. Muir J. Lumsden, junior David C. Kemp (shipowner) G. W. Melville W.H. Smiles (captain) J. Lumsden, senior (captain) J. O. Brown Colonel P. C. Hill E. H. Clarke J. Henry H. Herdman J. M. Gillies F. M. Hodges Vernon Kyrke Sir James Henderson D. L. Hubert Lumsden W. L. Wheeler B. Fullerbin Jim Garry writing for the Drogheda Independent quotes the golfing journals of the day referring to the course: These links are without doubt the nearest approach to that of St. Andrew's, the premier Scottish greens... it abounds in legitimate hazards, the bunker, the rabbit scrape, the water and the furze. Here is not only opportunity for the long driver and the stealthy putter, but as to many of the Belfast team found, for the successful player of the sand, iron and niblick. Further Reading Thomas Gilroy