Wales represents British golf's best-kept secret, offering championship-quality courses at exceptional value compared to Scotland's premium-priced venues. The principality boasts four courses ranked in the Great Britain & Ireland Top 100: Royal Porthcawl leads as Wales' highest-ranked course, followed by Pennard Golf Club, Royal St David's, and Aberdovey. Welsh golf's unique character stems from its diverse terrain, featuring traditional links along dramatic coastlines, distinctive "common land" courses across elevated moorland, and championship parkland venues.
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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.
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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.
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 is set enchantingly within the Snowdonia National Park at the mouth of the Dovey Estuary...
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...
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, established in 1888 as Wales' oldest course, offers authentic links golf on the stunning Pembrokeshire coast. This James Braid-designed championship venue features blind shots, pot bunkers, and spectacular views across Caldey Island, providing an unforgettable Welsh golf holiday experience for travelling golfers.
Bernhard Gallacher picked up his first pay cheque at Ashburnham Golf Club when he won the 1969 Schweppes PGA Championship.
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.
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...
Bull Bay Golf Club is the most northerly course in Wales and was designed by the esteemed architect, Herbert Fowler.
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...
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 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 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 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.
Established in 1885 with a strong claim as Wales' oldest golf course, Borth & Ynyslas offers traditional links golf along Cardigan Bay within the Dyfi National Nature Reserve. Harry Colt's 1947 redesign created a challenging par-70 layout that remains a Welsh Golfing Union championship venue for holiday golfers.
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!
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.
Porthmadog Golf Club was founded in 1905 and James Braid designed it. The course is an exciting hybrid mix of parkland and links holes.
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.
The delightful heathland course at Holyhead Golf Club is tucked away on Holy Island, in the very north west corner of Wales...
It was here at St Pierre, in the 1980 British Masters, that Bernhard Langer became the first German to win a major tournament.
Designed by Ryder Cup legend, Colin Montgomerie, his new course at the colossal Celtic Manor Resort opened for play in July 2007...
Pwllheli Golf Club is unique... park-like and links-like. The clubhouse is so close to the sea that it's almost a boathouse.
Trent Jones Senior has created an American-style course that will appeal to golfers of all abilities for the holes are captivating and challenging.
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...
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...
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.
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.
The Llandudno Golf Club – or Maesdu ("Black Meadow") as it’s now known – was formed in 1915 and the 18-hole course was laid out on land between the Wardre Hills and the Irish Sea...
What many visitors to this part of the Gwynedd region might not appreciate is that Abersoch Golf Club boasts a terrific little golf course that dates all the way back to 1908, when the great Harry Vardon pegged out the original holes.
The modern day Cardiff is hemmed in on all sides by housing, but the undulating, lush, tree-lined fairways and meandering stream that crosses a number of holes combine to form a welcoming green oasis...
Neath Golf Club is a James Braid classic with many varied holes and magnificent views from its high hilltop location.
Wrexham Golf Club has retained little of Braid's original design input, with perhaps only three or four of his greens remaining in play, and it has been stretched a little over time to its current length of 6,131 yards...
Prestatyn Golf Club is the most northerly course in mainland Wales and is routed across 150 acres of natural links land. It represents a challenge when the prevailing southwesterly blows.
Nestling in a delightful valley, Vale of Llangollen Golf Club is the quintessential gem. Shhh... don't tell too many people.
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
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.
Cradoc Golf Club can best be described, in the words of one golf commentator, as “an arboretum set down in scenery that can only be described as drop-dead gorgeous”.
Rhuddlan Golf Club’s pleasant parkland layout measures almost 6,500 yards and its routing is the work of esteemed architect Fred Hawtree, who designed the course back in 1930.
Mold is one of the shorter 18-hole courses in Wales, measuring less than 5,600 yards, but it’s a very pleasant parkland layout that will challenge you all the way to beat its par of 67.
Although Abergele Golf Club was formed in 1910, the current parkland course, set in the ancient Gwyrch Castle estate, dates back to 1968. Architect David Williams recently upgraded the greens to USGA specification.
Best described as a rather flat, seaside links course with a heathland feel, Anglesey Golf Club extends to just over 6,300 yards, featuring small, lightly bunkered greens...
Potentially the pinnacle of hilltop golf, West Monmouthshire Golf Club is officially the highest golf club in Great Britain. Located on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park, the course offers breathtaking views of the Black Mountains and the surrounding countryside.
Aberystwyth Golf Club was formed in 1911 and the first committee made the wise decision to engage Harry Vardon to design the 18-hole layout.
James Braid originally laid out the parkland course at Wenvoe Castle Golf Club within the scenic heart of the Vale of Glamorgan, where two loops of nine holes return to an impressive 18th Century Mansion House.
Originally established as a 9-hole track back in 1913 by George Humble, the Llandrindod Wells professional, the course at Milford Haven Golf Club was expanded to an 18-hole layout in 1933.
Designed by Harry Colt and opened for play in 1937, the course at St Mellons Golf Club lies halfway between Cardiff and Newport, so it’s conveniently positioned to cater for golfing needs of players in both cities.
Morlais Castle Golf Club, built on the site of the ruins of Morlais Castle (which can be seen behind the 2nd green), boasts a rich history, with the castle itself dating back to 1270 and built by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan.
