Golf Courses in Wales
Aberdovey Golf Club
Aberdovey Golf Club is an 18 hole, 6454 yard, par 71, links course situated between Aberdovey beach and the Cambrian Mountains in Gwynedd. The exhilarating start to the round sees you introduced at the earliest opportunity to the rustic joys of links golf; tight lies, rolling fairways, undulating approaches, dry-firm surfaces and fast greens are all here in abundance. Holes blend into the dynamic sand dune morphology, its plants and wildlife with elevated tees and greens offering not only spectacular views, but the feeling of being in harmony with the environment. The rhythm of the course combines with the natural elements to test and tease the golfer in equal amounts. Appearances can, however, be deceptive; holes that tempt the golfer most are often those that are better played with a sense of restraint. Birdies and par come to those who play with the course, not against it. Read more about Aberdovey Golf Club Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Ashburnham, near Llanelli
Located to the west of Llanelli and not so far from Swansea, this is one of the oldest courses in Wales. The challenging championship links course has some amazing golf holes, with holes 3 to 8 running parallel to the sea. Tight fairways, dangerous rough and many hazards, you have to play here with both your clubs and your brains. Read more about Ashburnham, near Llanelli Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Celtic Manor Golf, Newport
As venue of the 2010 Ryder Cup and home of The Celtic Manor Wales Open, a leading European Tour event, The Celtic Manor Resort offers some of the finest golf courses and facilities in the UK. These include The Twenty Ten Course, the Roman Road and The Montgomerie. There is also a world-class golf academy featuring a floodlit driving range, practice range, indoor putting studio, golf shop and teaching bays and two luxurious golf clubhouses, The Twenty Ten Clubhouse and The Lodge with its own bar, restaurant, health club and spa. Read more about Celtic Manor Golf, Newport Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Conwy Golf Club
Conwy Golf Club is located along the North Wales coast, in the shadow of Conwy Mountain overlooking the estuary towards Llandudno's Great Orme and the Isle of Anglesey visible to the west. This fantastic links course has been home to the Ryder Cup Wales Seniors Open twice and the venue for the prestigious European Amateur Team Championship during July 2009. This picturesque course is certainly no push-over and is a challenge for golfers of all abilities, especially when those stiff sea breezes blow. Careful club selection and intelligent thinking is needed in order to score well. The club has recently invested in a fairway irrigation system, as well as creating new bunkers and reconstructing the existing hazards. In addition, visitors will enjoy the refurbished changing facilities, stunning views from the restaurant & lounge and catering facilities par excellence. Read more about Conwy Golf Club Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Fairwood Park Golf Club
Fairwood Park Golf Club is situated on the Gower Peninsula, Britain’s first designated area of outstanding natural beauty, and is just 15 minutes from Swansea. This 6,700 yard course has twice hosted the Welsh PGA Championships and is therefore the only course in Swansea that can claim 'Championship' status. This parkland course is relatively flat and is the longest on Gower. Careful planning and precision is needed on this course in order to score well. The wayward golfer is punished by the abundance of trees lining the fairways and by the course's strategically-placed bunkers and many lakes. A fantastic course that will challenge beginners and professionals alike. Read more about Fairwood Park Golf Club Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Gower Golf Club
Minutes from the M4 and Swansea, yet located on the stunning Gower Peninsula, Gower Golf Club offers a fantastic 18-hole golf course. It was designed by the highly respected Donald Steel and has been overlaid onto rolling countryside to create a spectacular challenge utilising every available feature. The golf course offers a range of challenging holes set in classic Gower countryside and reveals dramatic vistas over the South Wales landscape. The course threads its way through rolling terrain and offers its own subtle challenges alongside strategic bunkering and trees. Well-placed drives are rewarded, while the wayward have to be cautious with the recovery. Likewise, subtle borrows in the putting surfaces will test your ability to read these modern-styled greens where a lapse in concentration can send putts ambling 6 ft past. Small wonder the "Golf Union of Wales" host championship golf here. Read more about Gower Golf Club Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Langland Bay Golf Club
Langland Bay Golf Club is often described as the hidden gem of the Gower Peninsula. Formed in 1904, Langland Bay Golf Club is ideally located over lush meadowland across sprawling clifftops. The Gower Peninsula is the UK’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the outlooks from the course take in two of its finest bays, Langland and Caswell. Standard Scratch Score rates Langland Bay at 70, but as a true links course the elements can add their own challenges. Correct club selection is vital with compact greens guarded well from every angle. Come sunshine or rain, birdies at Langland are there to be savoured by golfers willing to challenge and respect the course in equal measure. With well-protected greens, strategically placed bunkers and open fairways, the course is a challenge for all levels of player and requires intelligent thinking in order to score well. Read more about Langland Bay Golf Club Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Llandudno Maesdu Golf Club
The Llandudno Maesdu Golf Club is located just one mile from the beautiful seaside resort of Llandudno and enjoys captivating panoramic views of the curving Conwy Bay, the Great Orme and in the distance the Snowdonia mountains, Isle of Anglesey and Puffin Island. This championship course has 18 excellent holes of mixed links and parkland and is relatively long at 6,500 yards. The course is gently undulating, with a great variety of holes and well-placed bunkers. A fantastic, challenging course that requires careful putting in order to score well. Read more about Llandudno Maesdu Golf Club Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Llandudno North Wales Golf Club
North Wales Golf Course is situated on the west coast of North Wales in the sunny seaside town of Llandudno with excellent views over the Conwy estuary to Anglesey and the Snowdonia Mountain range. It is a true links course of Championship standard, having previously hosted the Welsh Team Championships. The course is invigorating and challenging, offering an enjoyable experience for all levels of player. The course has an abundance of flora and fauna that will undoubtedly add interest to your game. Look out for the elusive Kestral, which has occasionaly been seen on the course. Read more about Llandudno North Wales Golf Club Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Machynys Peninsula, Llanelli
Machynys Peninsula is Wales' only Jack Nicklaus design. Overlooking Carmarthen Bay and the Gower Peninsular and just two minutes from Llanelli, this world-class links layout has played host to many championships including the Welsh Ladies Open on the European Tour. Good shots here reap a fair reward. One of the finest courses in the UK. Read more about Machynys Peninsula, Llanelli Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Nefyn & District Golf Club
Nefyn & District Golf Club is a unique 26 hole championship course located on a narrow peninsula with the holes bounded on one side by secluded coves, rocky outcrops and the sea and on the other by a glorious stretch of sandy beach and a pub; a backdrop of the Snowdonia range to the east and, on a clear sunny evening, 57 miles away, the Wicklow mountains of southern Ireland to the west. Visitors to Nefyn have the choice of playing either The Old or The New Course. The Old Course opens with three par fours and a par five, which run along the coastline before turning inland and a series of six holes which provide the golfer with the spectacular backdrop of the surrounding mountains. The remaining eight holes are played on The Point, a narrow peninsula with the sea on one side and sandy beaches on the other. Every hole calls for accurate shot-making and in a few cases, some spectacular carries across coves and inlets. Alternatively, after 10 holes of The Old Course, the golfer can continue on The New, with an opening par three which, depending on the wind, can be a wood or a medium iron. Thereafter, a series of longish par fours and a par five around a coastal inlet brings the golfer back to the 18th tee with its panoramic view of the entire course. Read more about Nefyn & District Golf Club Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Pennard Links, Swansea
Pennard is located eight miles west of Swansea in the Gower Peninsula, an area of outstanding natural beauty. The golf course holes are routed over classically undulating and tumbling linksland, full of hummocks, hillocks and hollows and packed with dunes, large and small. Read more about Pennard Links, Swansea Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Porthmadog Golf Club
Porthmadog Golf Club is situated only a mile or so from Clough Williams Ellis' world-famous Italianate village at Portmeirion where TV series 'The Prisoner' was filmed - and Porthmadog's intriguing mixture of heath land and linksland can be just as captivating. Created at the turn of the century by James Braid, the genius course designer of his day, the course has two distinct halves. The front nine are away from the coast and although the soil is sandy the terrain is more accurately described as heathland. But it is none the worse for that, especially with the presence of water making itself felt on five of the holes. The back nine head for the sea, and some beautiful scenery, and the course is transformed into pure links that have been likened to a miniature Troon. Certainly, there's a lot to the locals' claims that these are the most natural nine holes in Wales. Read more about Porthmadog Golf Club Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Pyle & Kenfig, Bridgend
Pyle and Kenfig Golf Course, affectionately known as ‘P & K’, with its lofty sand dunes hugging the South Wales coast of Porthcawl, is situated in a wonderful stretch of golfing country. Read more about Pyle & Kenfig, Bridgend Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Royal Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan
Royal Porthcawl overlooks the Bristol Channel on the Glamorgan Coast, between Cardiff and Swansea. The golf course has a magnificent setting, sloping down to the seashore. The absence of sand hills, usually found on links courses, enables the golfer to see the sea from every hole and to enjoy memorable views south to Somerset and Exmoor, and northwest across Swansea Bay to the Gower Peninsula. Read more about Royal Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Royal St. David's Golf Club
Nationally and internationally renowned, Royal St David's is one of Wales' premier golf courses. It provides a challenging test of golf in a breathtaking setting in the most beautiful and scenic part of the Principality and dominated by the brooding presence of Harlech Castle. Established in 1894, Royal St David's Golf Club is the home of one of the finest traditional links courses in the world. The undulating fairways and fast true greens are all that would be expected of a championship links course. The Par 69 course has been increased to a challenging 6,629 yds from the Championship Tees following the extension of the practice ground and the reconfiguration of the 17th hole in 2008. It is noted for a succession of long testing par 4 holes and 5 short holes, which vary in length and direction and a feature is the large size of the greens. The course is rated 73rd in the Golf Digest Best 100 courses outside the USA, 42nd in Golf World’s Top 100 courses in Britain & Ireland and 45th in Golf Monthly’s Top 100 in the UK & Ireland. Read more about Royal St. David's Golf Club Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Southerndown Golf Club, Bridgend
Southerndown Golf Club is a hidden gem - a unique golf course, part sandy links, part acid-heathland. Its unique terrain makes it one of the driest courses in Wales, with year-round golf for members and visitors alike. The course rarely closes and offers excellent value for money. Read more about Southerndown Golf Club, Bridgend Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
St Pierre Golf, Chepstow
The two courses at Marriott St Pierre pose contrasting challenges. The Old Course has a memorable climax on the island 17th and elevated 18th. The Mathern course is shorter and tighter and is well worth a round during your golf break. Read more about St Pierre Golf, Chepstow Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
Vale Resort
Plotted amid 650 acres of beautiful Welsh countryside, just 20 minutes from Cardiff, the Vale Resort Golf Club offers two fantastic championship golf courses. Both golf courses have been host to a number of PGA golf tournaments over the years, the latest being the Wales Challenge 2009, and provide a challenging, yet enjoyable, days golf on any golf break in Wales. The golf courses offer a mixture of mature wooded areas, wide and narrow fairways and vast areas of water features. The Wales National at 7,433 yards off the championship tees, is one of the longest outside America with hole 6 being voted as one of the top 10 par 4's in the UK. The Lake course, slightly shorter at 6,436 yards, is just as challenging and aptly named with water coming into play on 12 of its holes. The Vale Academy offers expert golf coaching and tuition. The Academy has state-of the art coaching video equipment and GASP advanced coaching systems (used by Sky Sports) and is one of a limited number of institutions for golf in Wales that can boast these facilties. Read more about Vale Resort Find Accommodation + Add to My Trip
