Royal Portrush is expected to be named the venue for the 2012 Irish Open.
The announcement follows the phenomenal success of the Ulster golfers. The course, on the scenic Giant's Causeway coast, will be unveiled at a press conference as the home of the Irish Open for this year at least.
The decision to move the European Tour event northward from Killarney, Co Kerry, comes on the back of the achievements of Ulster golfers winning three majors in the last two years.
Darren Clarke's emotional victory in the Open Championship at Sandwich in Kent last summer followed the successive US Open victories of Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy.
All three players - McDowell and Clarke have homes in Portrush - backed the bid to bring the Irish Open to the town's famous links course.
Two-time Open champion Pádraig Harrington is also a Portrush member.
Clarke and McDowell both welcomed the return of the Irish Open to Portrush.
"Fantastic news on the Irish Open 2012 coming to Royal Portrush," McDowell told his Twitter followers.
"Always been a dream of mine to play a top event in my home town."
Clarke urged golf fans to pack the fairways come June.
"Royal Portrush will be awesome for the Irish Open this year... it's as good a test as we play anywhere!" he tweeted.
"Brilliant news. Big crowds please!!!"
It is hoped that a successful staging of the Irish Open this June will add further momentum to the campaign to bring the Open Championship itself back to Northern Ireland.
The Open has only been staged in the region once before, at Royal Portrush in 1951.
But the three major wins by local golfers prompted a clamour for a return and heaped pressure on governing body the Royal and Ancient (R&A) to bring the tournament across the Irish Sea.
After Clarke's win last year, R&A chief executive Peter Dawson pledged to look again at the issue.
Assembly member John Dallat said securing the Irish Open could open the way for a major return.
"Anything is now possible," he said.
"Confidence at that level has now been bestowed on the club, so why not?"
