1. Wales has around 180 golf courses, including 23 links courses.
2. Wales has staged major golf events, including The Ryder Cup in 2010 at The Celtic Manor Resort. It was the first time a golf course (The Twenty Ten golf course) had been built specifically to stage The Ryder Cup. Europe beat the USA by a score of 14½ to 13½.
3. The design plans for the construction of The Twenty Ten Ryder Cup Course changed a dozen times as new archaeological finds were uncovered. They included Roman pottery kilns, villa foundations, and graves.
4. The Twenty Ten Ryder Cup course at The Celtic Manor Resort is one of it's three playable championship courses..
5. The famous Royal Porthcawl Golf Club has held three Senior Open Championships, won in both 2014 and 2017 by Bernhard Langer, and by Alex Cejka in 2023.
6. The Vale Resort near Cardiff also has world-class sports training facilities and is the training base for the Wales national rugby and football teams.
7. From over 600 castles ever recorded, more than 400 castles in Wales are still standing or in ruins, so wherever you go in Wales you won't be too far from a historic site.The mighty walls of the UNESCO-listed Castell Harlech (Harlech Castle) stands watch over the greens and fairways of the Royal St. David’s Golf Club.
8. Wales is easily accessible via UK airports such as London, Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool, as well as directly into Wales at Cardiff Airport.
9. With an unbroken 1400 km coastal path around the entire shoreline, The Wales Coast Path is the world’s first continuous walking route around a country's coast. Many links courses are dotted along the route. At Cardigan Golf Club, it is possible to spot dolphins and porpoises playing among the waves just below the course.
10. Tenby Golf Club on the coast of West Wales is Wales’s oldest established golf club. It was founded in 1888.
11. West Monmouthshire Golf Club has the highest golf course in Great Britain, as recognized by the Guinness Book of Records. The 14th tee is the highest point at more than 1,500 ft (460 m) above sea level.
12. Ian Woosnam (Woosie), the Welsh golf Major winner, grew up playing at Llanymynech Golf Club in Mid Wales. The course has 15 holes in Wales and three in England, and on the fourth hole, players tee off in Wales, putt in England, and return to Wales three holes later!
13. Wales has the third-oldest golf union in the world, established in 1895.
14. Machynys Peninsula Golf and Country Club was designed by Gary Nicklaus, son of the legendary American golfer Jack Nicklaus.
15. Royal St. David’s Golf Club in Harlech presents a challenge where only twice do successive holes proceed in the same direction.
16. Pennard Golf Club is known as ‘the links in the sky’ as the course stands two hundred feet above the seashore.
17. The final eight holes of the Old Course at Nefyn Golf Club are laid out on a narrow strip of land projecting into the Irish Sea, with sheer cliffs on each side.
18. While not by the seaside Llandrindod Wells Golf Club, sat high on a hill, has some traditional coastal features such as natural hazards and firm, quick-draining turf. One might spot the forked tails of Red Kites,Mid Wales’ iconic bird of prey, flying above the course.