Royal County Down Golf Club is a well known golf club in Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland. It has two eighteen hole links courses, the Championship Course and the Annesley Links. It has hosted prestigious tournaments such as the Senior British Open and it will be the venue for the 2007 Walker Cup. In 2005 the Championship Course was ranked as the fourth best course in the world outside the United States by Golf Digest. Golf (gowf in Scots) is a sport where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. ... Newcastle refers primarily to the following places Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia And also: Newcastle Brown Ale, aka Newky Brown/Broon Newcastle United F.C., English Premier League Soccer club Newcastle Knights, an Australian rugby league team Newcastle United Jets, an Australian soccer team Newcastle... County Down, (An Dún in Irish) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, covering an area of 2,448 km² (945 square miles). ... Dieu et mon droit (motto) (French for God and my right)2 Northern Irelands location within the UK Official Languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Hain MP Area - Total Ranked 4th UK 13,843... A links golf course, sometimes referred to as a seaside links is the oldest style of golf course, first developed in Scotland, where golf originated. ... The Senior British Open Championship is a professional golf tournament for men aged fifty and over. ... The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested biennially in odd numbered years between teams comprising the leading amateur golfers of the United States and Great Britain and Ireland (in political terms the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland). ... Golf Digest is a monthly golf magazine published by Advance Publications in the United States. ...