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Perched on the clifftops above Cardigan Bay, Aberystwyth Golf Club has offered golfers spectacular coastal views across the bay to the Llyn Peninsula since the early twentieth century. Its exposed, breezy setting gives the course a links-like character despite its elevated position above the town.

Founded in 1907, Carmarthen Golf Club occupies an elevated parkland setting above the Towy Valley, offering wide views over the surrounding Carmarthenshire countryside. Its well-wooded fairways and testing greens have made it one of the leading clubs in South West Wales for well over a century.

Dating back to 1905, Cilgwyn Golf Club lies in the quiet hills above the Teifi Valley near Lampeter, where its compact, undulating course rewards local knowledge of its sloping fairways and small greens. Its rural Ceredigion setting and friendly, unpretentious character have kept it a well-loved fixture of mid Wales golf.

Known locally as Cwm Golf Club, this friendly course near Llandysul sits in the gentle farmland of the Ceredigion countryside, a short drive from the Cardigan Bay coast. Its unpretentious, welcoming character has made it a popular club for golfers throughout rural west Wales.

Set in rolling Carmarthenshire farmland near Bancyfelin, Derllys Court is a mature parkland course whose tree-lined fairways and well-maintained greens wind through gentle countryside between Carmarthen and the coast. It has built a reputation as a welcoming club for members, visitors and societies alike.

Opened in 1992 on land reclaimed from opencast mining by British Coal, Glyn Abbey was designed by renowned architect Dr Martin Hawtree and laid out on the wooded southern slope of the Gwendraeth Valley, with some 35,000 trees planted alongside the ancient Trimsaran Wood. Now independently run by its members, the club was named Welsh Golf Club of the Year in 2009.

Tracing its roots to 1910 as Llandilo Golf Club, Glynhir relocated to its present site at Glynhir Uchaf Farm near Llandybie in 1967, where architect Fred W. Hawtree laid out an undulating parkland course with magnificent views over the valley. The par-5 14th is considered the course's signature hole, capping a layout built through the determination of its members in the face of 1960s financial constraints.

Established in 1904, Haverfordwest Golf Club is a mature, tree-lined parkland course set a few miles inland from the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, with well-maintained fairways and true, rolling greens. A dedicated junior course has since been added alongside the main 18 holes, reflecting the club's long-standing role at the heart of local golf.

Welcoming golfers for over a century, Milford Haven Golf Club is an 18-hole, par-70 parkland course laid out in two contrasting nines above the Haven waterway in Pembrokeshire. Holes bearing names such as Harold's Gap, The Pond and Jetty reflect the distinctive maritime landscape that shapes the round.

Founded in 1925 and marking its centenary in 2025, Newport Links is Wales' premier coastal links, its rolling dunes running along Newport Bay beneath the Preseli Hills and Carningli mountain. Over the decades it has produced numerous county and national champions and hosted events including the Welsh Ladies Seniors Open.

Established in 1967 on Old Barrack Hill above Pembroke Dock, South Pembrokeshire has grown over the years into a testing 18-hole parkland layout with some of the best-kept greens in the locality. The friendly club welcomes visitors and societies to a course that rewards accurate approach play over its rolling Pennar terrain.

Golf has been played on the burrows above Whitesands Bay since the early 1900s, with the club instituted in 1903 and the course laid out by Doctor W.W. Williams and Colonel T. Bleddyn Rees. Devastated by sand excavation for a wartime airfield, the links was rebuilt from ruin by dedicated members after 1945 and today occupies a spectacular clifftop setting looking out over St Davids Head and the Atlantic.

Opened in 1996, Trefloyne is a championship-standard parkland course set in the grounds of a historic manor near Tenby, with views stretching across the Ritec Valley to Carmarthen Bay. The course has matured handsomely since its early days, hosting a PGA event in 2010 and offering a genuine test of golf alongside an award-winning clubhouse and restaurant.