Sport
- Royal Portrush Golf Club. The only place outside mainland United Kingdom to host the British Open. 2011 British Open champion Darren Clarke is the clubs resident professional, and lives in Portrush.
- Portrush Hockey Club
- The Northern Ireland Milk Cup uses Parker Avenue in Portrush as one of the pitches for the tournament, and many teams stay within the town itself.
- All three of Portrush's beaches are frequently used by watersports enthusiasts, in particular surfers and bodyboarders
- Coleraine council maintain tennis courts, bowling greens and a playground at Ramore Head.
- Fishing is popular from shoreside or at sea, with Causeway Lass fishing boat available for hire at the Harbour.
- Portrush is home to Fred Daly who was the first Irishman to win the British Open Championship in 1947.
- Professional golfer Graeme McDowell, winner of the 2010 US Open, was born and lives in Portrush.
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“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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