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1 Radyr Golf Course

Founded: in 1902

With its magnificent views overlooking the City of Cardiff and the Bristol Channel beyond, Radyr has one of the most idyllic settings of any golf club in South Wales. Nestling in rural heathland its gentle undulations provide both members and visitors with a course which is a delight to the eye, yet which offers the sternest of challenges to golfers of all standards. At 6053 yards the layout of the course today has changed little from the original finalised by Colt of Sunningdale in 1915.

Course Type: Parkland
Yards: 6053
Par: 69
SSS: 70

2 Whitchurch Golf Course

Founded: in 1914

The 18-hole course was designed by Donald Steel who has planned 8 European Tour courses and is Consultant Course Architect to the R&A at St Andrews. The Rolling Countryside has been transformed into one of the most exciting golf challenges in South Wales where the contours, trees and water have been sympathetically utilised to create a natural 18 hole- Par 71 course of 6441 yds.

Course Type: Parkland
Yards: 6278
Par: 71
SSS: 71

3 Llanishen Golf Course

Founded: in 1905

Llanishen Golf Club is a parkland course situated on the hillside in north Cardiff and overlooks the city, the Bristol Channel and Somerset coast line. Whereas the course is not long it does present a challenge to all handicap players. With a pleasant variety on left to right and right to left shaped holes combined with small target areas from tee to fairway and fairway to green, playing to your handicap will be an achievement in itself.

Course Type: Parkland
Yards: 5301
Par: 68
SSS: 67

4 Cottrell Park - The Button

Founded: in 1996

The course continues to mature and tests the short game of the best of golfers. The first few holes lull you into a false sense of security. As you progress and loosen up, the course in turn toughens and tightens up, presenting challenges that can ruin what was a very good looking card.

Course Type: Parkland
Yards: 6156
Par: 71
SSS: 68

5 The Glamorganshire Golf Course

Founded: in 1890

The Glamorganshire Golf Club, situated in the seaside town of Penarth on the outskirts of Cardiff is the second oldest golf club in South Wales. Although being near the sea, the Glamorganshire is not a links, but an 18-hole parkland course on undulating ground on the edge of what are now Cosmeston Lakes.

Course Type: Parkland
Yards: 6184
Par: 70
SSS: 71

6 Creigiau Golf Course

Founded: in 1921

This is a picturesque, parkland course which is always to be found in immaculate condition throughout the Summer playing season. The layout is flat and easy walking, with no hills to speak of, and boasts a plethora of water hazards to snare the errant shot. The signature par three sixteenth hole, some 179 yards off the back tee, asks the question late in the round with water lurking along and on both sides of the green.

Course Type: Parkland
Yards: 6063
Par: 71
SSS: 70

7 Vale Resort - The National Golf Course

Founded: in 1990

At 7,413 yards off the championship tees, its one of the longest golf courses outside of the USA. Golf World magazine rates its 16th hole as one of the top 10 par 4s in UK golf. It boasts some of the UKs finest scenery, a mixture of mature wooded areas, wide and narrow fairways and vast water and bunker features, all set in the spectacular countryside of Wales.

Course Type: Parkland
Yards: 7413
Par: 73
SSS: 69

8 Peterstone Lakes Golf Course

Founded: in 1990

The golf course meanders through natural waterways with only the Severn estuary lapping against the sea wall. Opened in 1990 and complimented by a superb clubhouse, Peterstone Lakes has now become one of South Wales favourite golfing and social venues for a variety of occasions. The lakes have been extended, new bunkers built and ditches filled in and grassed over, making for a more fair, interesting and challenging round.

Course Type: Parkland
Yards: 6600
Par: 72
SSS: 72

9 Pyle and Kenfig Golf Course

Founded: in 1922

If it didnt have a royal neighbour, PandK would enjoy a far wider reputation. It has many fine qualities that distinguish it from Royal Porthcawl, as competitors in the 2002 Amateur Championship discovered when both courses hosted the qualifying rounds of the tournament. PandK possesses much higher dunes and deeper, disconcerting valleys in a layout that offers plenty of diversity. The course is laid out in two loops of nine holes and although each half tests the golfer, the second nine poses more difficulties.

Course Type: Links
Yards: 6588
Par: 71
SSS: 73

10 Southerndown Golf Course

Founded: in 1905

Bracken to the left of you, bracken to the right and a fairway rising up to the sky. The maestro Henry Cotton described the first here as one of the most difficult opening holes he had encountered. Need I say more!!! ...the views are spectacular as well.

Course Type: Links
Yards: 6449
Par: 70
SSS: 71

11 Royal Porthcawl Golf Course

Founded: in 1891

Royal Porthcawls entitlement to be an honoured place among the worlds best golf courses is usually confirmed by playing the first three holes that run alongside, and in places seem part of, the scalloped edge of Rest Bay. The beach can appear all rock and pebbles until the surfers sea recedes to reveal 300 yards of firm sand across which the prevailing westerly whips. It is by no means a course of fearsome length it doesnt have fancy lighthouse, high dunes or deep ditches. It doesnt even have a tree.

Course Type: Links
Yards: 6829
Par: 72
SSS: 74

12 2010 Golf Course

Founded: in 2007

The new course built for staging The Ryder Cup in 2010 opened for play on 4th July 2007. The first course to be built specifically for golfs greatest team tournament, it measures a robust 7,493 yards off the back tees and has a par of 71. With water hazards on half of its holes, the course has six signature holes and presents many more memorable tests and risk and reward dilemmas.

Course Type: Parkland
Yards: 7493
Par: 71
SSS: ---

13 Vale Resort - The Lakes Golf Course

Founded: in 1990

Having already hosted 3 Welsh PGA Professional Championships, the Lake Course is a true challenge for even the very best golfers. Aptly named, water comes into play on 9 holes including the daunting 12th, where the green is located on an island.

Course Type: Parkland
Yards: 6438
Par: 72
SSS: 69

14 Cottrell Park - Mackintosh Golf Course

Founded: in 1996

The Mackintosh course, is named after Alfred Donald Mackintosh of Mackintosh the 28th Chief of Clan Mackintosh and Chief of Clan Chattan, who resided at Cottrell during the 19th and 20th Centuries. The course provides 6,313 challenging yards off the white tees and has been designed around the original features of the rolling parkland, including a Roman Motte. This championship course has been selected for a number of Welsh Golf Union and Welsh Ladies Golf Union events as well as County Matches, which is indeed a compliment to a course so young.

Course Type: Parkland
Yards: 6313
Par: 72
SSS: 70

15 St Mellons Golf Course

Founded: in 1937

First opened in 1936, St Mellons is a lovely parkland course on the eastern edge of the bustling Capital city of Cardiff. The course is laid out in the shape of a clover leaf and provides one of the best tests of golf in South Wales. The course provides the visitor with a pleasant walk from the first testing par four through two copses and so on through seventeen other very individualistic holes. The third, a par three, carries the name Cottons Choice. This after the comment made by the late, great Henry Cotton who rated this hole very highly.

Course Type: Parkland
Yards: 6275
Par: 70
SSS: 71