Rankings: We are thrilled by the fact that the main national and international golf course rankings consistently recognise the links of The European Club. We are delighted that Golf Digest magazine has ranked our links as No. 4 in their list of the 2010 Top 100 golf courses in Ireland. ****** The Golf Monthly ranking of the 120 Greatest Golf Courses in Britain & Ireland (December 2010) listed our links as 14th. ****** Golf World UK has ranked our links 17th in their Top 100 Golf Courses in Britain & Ireland 2010. ****** A distinguished fourball visited The European Club in July of 2002 on their way to the British Open at Muirfield. Tiger Woods, David Duval, Scott McCarron and Mark O'Meara made up the fourball. Mr. Woods recorded a course record 67 on his first visit to the club. HARRINGTON'S OPENS!      The European Club took part in a bold plan to prepare Padraig Harrington for his British Open wins in 2007 and 2008. It hosted the Irish Professional Championship in the week before the British each year with club designer/owner Pat Ruddy going to great lengths in simulating Open Championship conditions and the plan worked. Harrington won the 2007 Irish in a playoff and next weekend won the British in a playoff at Carnoustie. In 2008 Harrington won the Irish by 4-strokes and won the British by four at Birkdale the following weekend; and then went on to add the US PGA title at Oakland Hills. This is believed to be the only time a National PGA and a course designer/owner co-operated to prepare a national hero for the majors!