Nefyn and District Golf Club - Wales

Nefyn & District is the Welsh version of Pebble Beach, an old-fashioned course laid out on the sea cliffs of north Wales near the village of Nefyn. The course is unique in that it has 26 holes, a front 10 and two distinctive back eights. Three holes of the 10 used for both the Old Course and New Course cling to the cliffs, and all have the Irish Sea in view from every hole. The Old Course is short on yardage, but features four more cliffs ide holes in the closing eight, including the 12th, a blind, downhill par-five that overlooks the tiny fishing village of Porth Dinllaen at the sea's edge with the Ty Coch pub, built in 1823. The course was founded in 1907. Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who was Welsh by birth and an avid golfer, was invited to preside at the course's reopening in 1919 after World War I, but attended ,the Peace Conference at Versailles instead of coming to Nefyn.

Aberdovey Golf Club - Wales

Aberdovey Golf Club is one of the great courses of Wales but it is best known as being the beloved favorite of golf writer Bernard Darwin, for it was where Darwin learned. to play the game while on his boyhood holidays. The course is situated at the mouth of the Dovey Estuary, in the dunes overlooking Cardigan Bay. Over the years, Harry Colt, Herbert Fowler, and James Braid each made revisions, but the course owes its beginning to Colonel Richard Ruck, Darwin's maternal uncle, who in 1886 borrowed nine flower pots from a woman in the village, which he cut into the greens for holes. Darwin wrote of Aberdovey: "It is the course that my soul loves best of all the courses in the world. Every golfer has a course for which he feels some such blind and unreasoning affection. When he is going to his golfing home he packs up his clubs with a peculiar delight and care; he anxiously counts the diminishing number of stations that divide him from it, and finally steps out on the platform, as excited as a schoolboy home for the holidays, to be claimed by his own familiar caddie. A golfer can only have one course towards which he feels quite in this way, and my one is Aberdovey."