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Wales

The Welsh Tourist Board once promoted Wales as follows: “For the many who have tired of sun loungers… Wales. Home of proper holidays. Phrasebook optional, sense of adventure essential, indifference best left at home.” What can we add to that? Probably not much really, especially as Wales was firmly in the golfing spotlight in October 2010 when Newport hosted the Ryder Cup.

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  1. Royal Porthcawl Golf Club

    South Wales, United Kingdom

    Royal Porthcawl Golf Club is located off the beaten track, east of Swansea and west of Cardiff. Despite being the highest ranked course in Wales, it remains relatively unknown.

  2. Pennard Golf Club

    South Wales, United Kingdom

    Pennard Golf Club is a delightful old-fashioned affair and without doubt, this is one of the very best links courses in the British Isles.

  3. Royal St David's Golf Club

    North Wales, United Kingdom

    The glorious setting for Royal St David’s Golf Club is nothing short of beautiful and romantic. The forbidding medieval Harlech castle and towering sand dunes guard the course.

  4. Aberdovey Golf Club

    North Wales, United Kingdom

    Aberdovey Golf Club is set enchantingly within the Snowdonia National Park at the mouth of the Dovey Estuary...

  5. Conwy Golf Club

    North Wales, United Kingdom

    Conwy Golf Club has played host to a number of major tournaments, including the Martini in 1970, when Peter Thomson and Doug Sewell tied on 268...

  6. Southerndown Golf Club

    South Wales, Wales

    Over time, sand has blown up from the seashore, coming to rest on the rolling slopes and giving the turf at Southerndown Golf Club a rather links-like character.

  7. Tenby Golf Club

    West Wales, Wales

    Tenby Golf Club is situated on the beautiful Pembrokeshire coast, affording superb views across to one of the UK’s most fascinating and holiest of islands.

  8. Ashburnham Golf Club

    West Wales, United Kingdom

    Bernhard Gallacher picked up his first pay cheque at Ashburnham Golf Club when he won the 1969 Schweppes PGA Championship.

  9. Celtic Manor Resort (The Twenty Ten)

    South Wales, United Kingdom

    Twenty Ten is the first course built specifically for the Ryder Cup and is the result of collaboration between the PGA, architects and tour pros...

  10. Pyle and Kenfig Golf Club

    South Wales, United Kingdom

    Pyle and Kenfig Golf Club, commonly known as P&K, is one of Wales’s few true links courses. Its famous regal neighbour, Royal Porthcawl, lies next door.

  11. Machynys Peninsula Golf Club

    West Wales, United Kingdom

    With stunning views of Carmarthenshire Bay and the Gower Peninsula, the Nicklaus-designed 7,100-yard links-style Machynys Peninsula is set to become a Welsh flagship course...

  12. Bull Bay Golf Club

    North Wales, United Kingdom

    Bull Bay Golf Club is the most northerly course in Wales and was designed by the esteemed architect, Herbert Fowler...

  13. Nefyn Golf Club (Old)

    North Wales, United Kingdom

    The Old course at Nefyn & District Golf Club is literally golf on the edge of the world and it makes the adrenaline pump...

  14. Llandrindod Wells

    Mid Wales, United Kingdom

    Llandrindod Wells measures only 5,759 yards and features a number of old-fashioned design traits, including back-to-back par threes at the 10th and 11th holes...

  15. North Wales Golf Club

    North Wales, United Kingdom

    North Wales is not only a test of ability but it also allows the golfer to relax and enjoy the exhilarating air and the magnificent scenery of the North Wales coast.

  16. The Rolls of Monmouth Golf Club

    South Wales, United Kingdom

    Set in the grounds of the former estate of Charles Stewart Rolls, the Rolls of Monmouth Golf Club really is the Rolls-Royce of hidden gems.

  17. Welshpool

    Mid Wales, United Kingdom

    If you like old-fashioned golf with pulpit greens, ditches, greenside swales, the occasional blind shot and gorse lining almost every fairway then Welshpool Golf Club is for you!

  18. Borth & Ynyslas

    West Wales, United Kingdom

    Borth & Ynyslas is a rugged seaside links and the membership strongly claims to be the oldest golf club in Wales.

  19. Cardigan

    West Wales, United Kingdom

    The course sits high on a hill outside the town of Cardigan, overlooking the Teifi Estuary, with extensive views over Cardigan Bay and along the coast to Ceredigion in the north and Pembrokeshire to the south.

  20. St Pierre (Old)

    South Wales, United Kingdom

    It was here at St Pierre, in the 1980 British Masters, that Bernhard Langer became the first German to win a major tournament.

  21. Porthmadog Golf Club

    North Wales, United Kingdom

    Porthmadog Golf Club was founded in 1905 and James Braid designed it. The course is an exciting hybrid mix of parkland and links holes.

  22. Holyhead

    North Wales, United Kingdom

    The delightful heathland course at Holyhead Golf Club is tucked away on Holy Island, in the very north west corner of Wales...

  23. Newport Golf Club

    South Wales, United Kingdom

    Founded in 1903, Newport Golf Club is one of the best parkland courses in South Wales and it’s set some 300-feet above sea level among the birch, beech and oak trees of the Llwyni Wood.

  24. Pwllheli

    North Wales, United Kingdom

    Pwllheli Golf Club is unique... park-like and links-like. The clubhouse is so close to the sea that it's almost a boathouse.

  25. Celtic Manor Resort (The Montgomerie)

    South Wales, United Kingdom

    Designed by Ryder Cup legend, Colin Montgomerie, his new course at the colossal Celtic Manor Resort opened for play in July 2007...

  26. Celtic Manor Resort (The Roman Road)

    South Wales, United Kingdom

    Trent Jones Senior has created an American-style course that will appeal to golfers of all abilities for the holes are captivating and challenging.

  27. Langland Bay Golf Club

    South Wales, United Kingdom

    With delightful changes in elevation throughout, Langland Bay Golf Club is not long at 5,857 yards, but what it doesn’t have in yardage it makes up for in many other ways...

  28. Whitchurch

    South Wales, United Kingdom

    Voted the best inland golf course in Wales in 2008, Whitchurch (Cardiff) Golf Club was founded in 1914 and this pretty parkland course is set on high ground where panoramic city and coastal views are free of charge.

  29. Clyne

    South Wales, United Kingdom

    Founded in 1920, Clyne Golf Club was designed by Harry Colt and the course is perched on the high ground of Clyne Common more than 300 feet above sea level.

  30. Radyr

    South Wales, United Kingdom

    The esteemed golf architect Harry Colt redesigned the 18 parkland/heathland holes at Radyr Golf Club and his work over the gently undulating terrain has stood the test of time...