A modern links championship 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 - 12 miles of irrigation pipes and six miles of drainage pipes, to ensure the course is in top condition all year round.
 

Gary Nicklaus - who has been overseeing the project design on behalf of his father, the legendary Jack Nicklaus - has identified some of his favourite and most challenging holes as the 4th, 5th, 16th, and 18th. Naming the fourth, "the most unique, a short-ish par 4 but a very challenging and a difficult one nonetheless."

Recently awarded the Welsh Golf Club of the Year award for 2007,Conwy (Caernarvonshire) Golf Club is one of the premier courses in Wales and since 1890 has hosted various events, most recently the Open Championship Final Qualifying 2006 – the first Welsh club to have this honour. During June 2007, Conwy hosted the Ryder Cup Wales Seniors Open as well as the British Ladies Open Amateur Championship. The Seniors return in 2008 and the European Amateur Team Championships will be staged here in 2009.With easy access from junction 17 of the A55 expressway, this links course, situated in a stunning location between the Conwy Estuary and surrounding mountains, is flat in its terrain with plenty of gorse lining the closing holes.A warm welcome awaits you at Conwy.

Ever since its opening back in 1894 Llandudno (North Wales) has garnered itself a highly respected reputation having hosted seemingly every top regional event imaginable.
The course is situated on Llandudno’s West Shore, overlooking Conway Bay, therefore provides a quite stunning links test. It is a natural links course in
every aspect with the front line like similar to Troon, in that it runs alongside a railway line with the homeward stretch along the coast.

A particular highlight, aside from the spectacular views, are the tricky par threes where a par feels like a birdie.

Nefyn and District Golf Club, located in the North West of Wales on the Llyn Peninsula, offers perhaps the most stunning setting for a round of golf in the north of the country.

The run of holes from the 12th onwards offer cliff-top locations for your tee shots where you play into a howling wind with absolutely no idea of club
selection whatsoever.

If ever there was a dramatic course that deserved more respect that it gets then Nefyn is surely it. The closing holes along the peninsula are quite superb and will live long in the memory, regardless of your score.