The great links of Ireland, even more so than those of Scotland, suggest that if God had elected another profession than deity, he could surely have made it as a golf architect. There is a magical, natural, deistic aspect to these Irish courses that one feels as much as sees. Another factor, which Edgeworth's photographs perfectly get: in Ireland, one feels the nearness, the presence, of the sea more dramatically you might say viscerally than on comparable Scottish or English links. It's always there, frequently ferocious, always breathtaking.