Golf Vacations Wales South
Celtic Manor Twenty Ten Course 7493 yards

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Specifically built to host the Ryder Cup, the course measures 7,493 yards and has a par of 71.

It features nine brand new holes (1st – 5th and 14th, 16th, 17th and 18th) as well as nine holes from the former Wentwood Hills championship course that have been extensively remodelled (6th – 13th and 15th).

The course has water hazards on half of its holes, making for many memorable shots and some intriguing risk-and-reward dilemmas.

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Celtic Manor Roman Road Course

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Designed by Robert Trent Jones Snr, the course was opened in 1995 and was voted the best inland course in Wales by Golf Monthly magazine in 1998.

The course staged The Celtic Manor Wales Open from 2005 to 2007 and also played host to the celebrity All Star Cup, featuring stars such as Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Douglas, Ronan Keating, Chris Evans, Jodie Kidd, William Baldwin, Alice Cooper, James Nesbitt and Jane Seymour, in 2005 and 2006.

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Celtic Manor Montgomerie 6371 yards

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Designed by Colin Montgomerie, the back nine of the 6,371-yard, par-69 course has been developed on land that previously housed 18 holes of the Coldra Woods academy course, while the front nine takes as its framework the old starting and finishing holes on the Wentwood Hills championship course designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr.

Throughout the layout, Montgomerie has added his own distinct stamp, remaining true to his roots in Scottish links golf by creating deep pot bunkers and some tricky greenside swales.

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The Vale Lakes Course 7433 yards

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The Wales National is a UK golf course of distinction, one of the UK and Europe’s newest championship golf courses and – at 7,433 yards off the championship tees – it’s one of the longest golf courses outside of the USA.

The golf course boasts some of the UK’s 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, with its abundance of wildlife including badgers, swans, rabbits and hawks.

The Lake Course – which has staged numerous Wales and West PGA professional championships – is dominated by a 20-acre lake and has water coming into play on 12 of its holes. Its 8th hole looks down over the largest heronry in Wales. Its unique signature hole, The Island Green (12th), is ranked one of UK golf courses top golf holes.

Golf Vacations Wales South – Tenby

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The oldest established golf course in Wales (1888). Tenby Golf Club is a challenging traditional links course. Tenby regularly hosts the Welsh Amateur Championships and is a fine test for players of all ability.

With stunning ocean views it maximizes all the natural features of this beautiful part of Pembrokeshire and remains playable all year.

Tenby’s tight fairways, fast-running greens and thick rough combine to provide an endlessly varied challenge. The course runs alongside Tenby South Beach and, whilst this makes for spectacular views, it also means the course is exposed to the elements.

Golf Vacations Wales South – Machynys

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Machynys Peninsula Golf & Country Club is proud to boast the first Nicklaus-designed golf course in Wales.

A modern links style layout overlooking Carmarthen Bay and the Gower Peninsular and already home to the European Tours ‘Ladies Championship of Europe’, Machynys Golf Club has already earned itself an enviable reputation as the UK’s best new golf course.

Machynys Peninsula has been designed to challenge the best players in championship conditions – and yet still be enjoyable for the higher handicapper, by utilising up to five tees per hole. The shaping of the £3.5m course layout has included the creation of 25 acres of new lakes – salt and fresh water.

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Pennard 6030 Yards Par 71

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Pennard Golf Club is located 8 miles west of Swansea in the Gower Peninsula, an area of outstanding natural beauty. Golf has been played there since 1896.
The holes are routed over classically undulating and tumbling links-land, full of hummocks, hillocks and hollows and pocked with dunes large and small; in sum, exactly what we might hope to find beside the shore.
Yet this exceptional terrain is not beside the shore – It is two hundred feet above it. Pennard has been called “the links in the sky.” Awkward lies and stances are a matter of course and the rugged terrain becomes more dramatic on the back nine.

Golf Vacations Wales South – Ashburnham

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A classic links course overlooking Carmarthen Bay, which celebrated its centenary in 1994. With trouble generally to the right on most holes this is not an easy course, particularly for slicers.

Ashburnham is a very special links course that has a special place in the hearts of a number of golfers; Former Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher won his very first professional event at Ashburnham when he won the Schweppes PGA Championship in 1969.
And another former Ryder Cup captain Sam Torrance also got his professional career off the ground when he won his first event at Ashburnham by lifting the Martini International in 1976.

Golf Vacations Wales South – Southerndown

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Southerndown Golf Club takes full advantage of its natural features. Undulating fairways and tight lies give the course a downland/links character.  Bracken and gorse punish wayward shots and on windy days golfers need to negotiate the hazards with care.

There are many longer courses, but few with a finer set of par-threes.  Equally memorable are the closing holes, usually played into the wind.  The 18th in particular with its intimidating gorse and renowned split-level fairway will live long in the memory.

Overlooking Porthcawl, Southerndown is a golf course of great natural feel, with crisp turf, rippling fairways with gorse and bracken everywhere.

Golf Vacations Wales South – Pyle & Kenfig

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Established in 1922 Pyle & Kenfig course is affectionately known as ‘P & K’ with its lofty sand dunes hugging the South Wales coast of Porthcawl.

The course is situated in a wonderful stretch of golfing country. Glorious views and historic associations adorn this undulating course with its natural hazard of hillocks, valleys and towering dunes.
The course is wonderful test for all standards of golfers and from the back tees a true championship Links.