The Ballina course provides not only relaxing golf for the handicapped players but stiff challenges for championship golfers. The ladies are well catered for as part of a family-friendly tradition at the Club. The former President of Ireland Mrs. Mary Robinson, a native of Ballina, is a Life Member of the Club. So also is another notable, Jack Charlton, who plays his golf at Ballina when he is not fishing the Moy, the world famous salmon river.

For the enthusiast, the specifications of the lush fairways and manicured greens of the Ballina course, guarded by water hazards and artful bunkers owe everything to the skills of course architect Eddie Hackett.

The par 5's are properly distributed and broken by shorter holes to avoid any hint of monotony on what Eddie Hackett himself describes as one of the most interesting courses in Ireland.