The K Club is one of the most storied venues in Irish golf and since 1995 has hosted 13 European Opens, two Irish Opens and a Ryder Cup.
The Club, founded in 1832, boasts two courses, the 'inland links' Palmer South and the Palmer North, both named after their designer, the great Arnold Palmer.
The South played host to the 2004, 2006 and 2007 European Opens, won by Retief Goosen, Stepehen Dodd and Colin Montgomerie but it is perhaps 2006 Ryder Cup venue the North which is best known.
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Here, as the Palmer North prepares to host the Amgen Irish Open for the third time, we take a look back on its history on the DP World Tour.
European Open
First played in 1982, the European Open took place at Open venues Turnberry and Royal Liverpool, Walton Heath, Sunningdale and East Sussex National before it found a home for 13 editions at the K Club in 1995.
Now named the Smurfit European Open, Bernhard Langer lifted the trophy the first time the event was staged on the North Course, defeating Barry Lane in a play-off.
There was then a period of Swedish dominance as Per-Ulrik Johansson claimed back-to-back titles in 1996 and 1997, the latter at a record-breaking 21 under as he finished six shots clear of Peter Baker.
Matthias Grönberg continued the Scandinavian theme with a stunning ten-shot victory in 1998 before Lee Westwood followed in Johansson's footsteps with back-to-back wins.
The island of Ireland was celebrating in 2001 as Darren Clarke took the honours and the following year it was another future Major champion who tasted victory in the shape of Michael Campbell.
Welshman Phillip Price was then the winner in 2003 before Kenneth Ferrie became the final European Open winner on the North Course in 2005.
2006 Ryder Cup
While the Palmer North has hosted many great stroke play events with more to come, it will almost certainly be remembered for Europe's thumping, record-equalling 18½-9½ victory over the United States.
Off the back of winning by the same score at Oakland Hills two years earlier, Europe arrived as favourites with a team boasting eight of the world's top 20 to the United States' three, although they were the top three of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk.
There was also emotion in the European camp after the sad death of Darren Clarke's wife Heather just six weeks previously, with the Northern Irishman proving to be a talisman over the three days to reward skipper Ian Woosnam for his selection.
Europe ground the United States down over the first two days, winning each session 2½-1½, before sprinting clear in the singles as they lost just three matches.
Clarke was victorious over Zach Johnson, prompting tearful scenes as Woosnam raised his hand like a prizefighter, and joyful scenes followed with the captain famously downing a pint of stout on the K Club balcony.
Irish Open
The island of Ireland's national open first came to the Palmer North in 2016 and Irish eyes were left smiling as Rory McIlroy claimed a spectacular victory.
The Northern Irishman had spoken coming into the week of what a first professional win on Irish soil would mean to him and entered the final round with a three-shot lead but was overtaken by Russell Knox before producing a birdie-par-eagle finish to win by three.
His closing eagle will live long in the memory of all who saw it as he put his 253-yard second to tap-in range for one of the shots of the season.
The event returned in 2023 and Swede Vincent Norrman took the title as he turned over a six-shot deficit on the final day for his second DP World Tour title in as many months.
He picked up six birdies in eight holes around the turn either side of a lengthy weather delay to surge into contention and after pulling off some valuable par saves over the closing holes, he faced a lengthy wait before discovering his closing 65 and 14 under par total was good enough for a one-shot win.
Now the Amgen Irish Open is back at the K Club once more and will return in 2027.
