The area of Swansea and slightly west along the coast has some amazing golf courses to offer those taking a trip to South Wales. There is a plethora of gorgeous links courses, along with some newer layouts, and some resort courses as well!
As the second biggest city in Wales, there are plenty of places to stay in Swansea, if that is where you want to base yourself. Move slightly east, and you will come to two of the best golf courses in Wales, not just by the capital. Royal Porthcawl is one of the best links courses anywhere in the country, and the host of the Senior Open Championship and AIG Women's Open in back-to-back years.
Almost within a stone's throw from Porthcawl is the glorious Pyle & Kenfig, with Harry Colt and Philip MacKenzie Ross being the two men to have laid out the course among the dunes of South Wales. Colt was also influential at Southerndown, another of the stunning links courses in the region.
If you take a trip in the other direction, west of Swansea, then you will be lost in a world of epic links golf. Starting at the top, both physically and metaphorically, with the 'Links in the Sky' - Pennard. That is one of three cracking layouts on the Gower Peninsula, along with Langland Bay and Clyne. Further along, you will come to the likes of Ashburnham, Tenby, and the newest of them all, the Jack Nicklaus-designed Machynys Peninsula.
The region also has some incredible stay-and-play resorts. Along with the glorious 143-room hotel, the Vale Resort in Glamorganshire has two championship courses. The resort is the home to both the Wales National and the Lake Course - with both courses making an appearance on the NCG Top 100s: Wales list.
How we compiled our Swansea list
We updated our Swansea list when we created our NCG Top 100s list of the best golf courses in Wales. If one course around Swansea is above another in our Wales list, then it will also be above it in our Swansea list.
