{"id":271236,"date":"2025-07-18T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/271236\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:33:09","slug":"golf-new-links-course-planned-for-nis-north-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/271236\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf: New links course planned for NI&#8217;s north coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is hoped the new course, on the coast near Bellarena in County Londonderry, will open in 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Economy Minister Caoimhe Archibald welcomed the development and said it would help to increase the impact of golf on Northern Ireland&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The course is being developed by the Galgorm Collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its managing director Colin Johnston said preparatory work had already started and main work on the course could begin from 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tourism Northern Ireland&#8217;s chairwoman Ellvena Graham said Northern Ireland was already &#8220;a highly sought-after destination for golfers from across the globe&#8221; and she hoped more would be attracted to visit the new course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is hoped the new course, on the coast near Bellarena in County Londonderry, will open in 2029.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-271236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114872608541125371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}