
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.
Royal Porthcawl Golf Club
South Wales, United Kingdom
Royal Porthcawl Golf Club
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.
Pennard Golf Club
South Wales, United Kingdom
Pennard Golf Club
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.
Royal St David's Golf Club
North Wales, United Kingdom
Royal St David's Golf Club
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.
Aberdovey Golf Club
North Wales, United Kingdom
Aberdovey Golf Club
Aberdovey Golf Club is set enchantingly within the Snowdonia National Park at the mouth of the Dovey Estuary...
Conwy Golf Club
North Wales, United Kingdom
Conwy Golf Club
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...
Southerndown Golf Club
South Wales, Wales
Southerndown Golf Club
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.
Tenby Golf Club
West Wales, Wales
Tenby Golf Club
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.
Ashburnham Golf Club
West Wales, United Kingdom
Ashburnham Golf Club
Bernhard Gallacher picked up his first pay cheque at Ashburnham Golf Club when he won the 1969 Schweppes PGA Championship.
Celtic Manor Resort (The Twenty Ten)
South Wales, United Kingdom
Celtic Manor Resort (The Twenty Ten)
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...
Pyle and Kenfig Golf Club
South Wales, United Kingdom
Pyle and Kenfig Golf Club
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.
Machynys Peninsula Golf Club
West Wales, United Kingdom
Machynys Peninsula Golf Club
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...
Bull Bay Golf Club
North Wales, United Kingdom
Bull Bay Golf Club
Bull Bay Golf Club is the most northerly course in Wales and was designed by the esteemed architect, Herbert Fowler...
Nefyn Golf Club (Old)
North Wales, United Kingdom
Nefyn Golf Club (Old)
The Old course at Nefyn & District Golf Club is literally golf on the edge of the world and it makes the adrenaline pump...
Llandrindod Wells
Mid Wales, United Kingdom
Llandrindod Wells
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...
North Wales Golf Club
North Wales, United Kingdom
North Wales Golf Club
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.
The Rolls of Monmouth Golf Club
South Wales, United Kingdom
The Rolls of Monmouth Golf Club
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.
Borth & Ynyslas
West Wales, United Kingdom
Borth & Ynyslas
Borth & Ynyslas is a rugged seaside links and the membership strongly claims to be the oldest golf club in Wales.
St Pierre (Old)
South Wales, United Kingdom
St Pierre (Old)
It was here at St Pierre, in the 1980 British Masters, that Bernhard Langer became the first German to win a major tournament.
Porthmadog Golf Club
North Wales, United Kingdom
Porthmadog Golf Club
Porthmadog Golf Club was founded in 1905 and James Braid designed it. The course is an exciting hybrid mix of parkland and links holes.
Newport Golf Club
South Wales, United Kingdom
Newport Golf Club
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.
Celtic Manor Resort (The Montgomerie)
South Wales, United Kingdom
Celtic Manor Resort (The Montgomerie)
Designed by Ryder Cup legend, Colin Montgomerie, his new course at the colossal Celtic Manor Resort opened for play in July 2007...
Celtic Manor Resort (The Roman Road)
South Wales, United Kingdom
Celtic Manor Resort (The Roman Road)
Trent Jones Senior has created an American-style course that will appeal to golfers of all abilities for the holes are captivating and challenging.
Langland Bay Golf Club
South Wales, United Kingdom
Langland Bay Golf Club
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...
Whitchurch
South Wales, United Kingdom
Whitchurch
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.
Vale Resort (Wales National)
South Wales, United Kingdom
Vale Resort (Wales National)
Opened in June 2003, the Wales National course measures 7,413 yards from the tips and it's one of the longest courses outside the USA.
Vale of Llangollen
North Wales, United Kingdom
Vale of Llangollen
Nestling in a delightful valley, Vale of Llangollen Golf Club is the quintessential gem. Shhh... don't tell too many people.
Monmouthshire
South Wales, United Kingdom
Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire Golf Club is very proud to have the Welsh golfing legend Iestyn Tucker as its President. Iestyn’s amateur record is remarkable and he’s held the course record at more than a dozen clubs in Wales