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This is Swansea: Golf Course Reviews

Celtic Manor

Friday, September 19, 2008

DON'T be alarmed if you see someone driving your car or walking off with your clubs at Celtic Manor.

That's the way it works at a golf resort that is preparing to host the Ryder Cup.

This is luxury golf, the kind that makes you feel like king for the day even if...

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Machynys

Thursday, September 18, 2008

YOU know you're playing a half-decent golf course when there's a former Ryder Cup captain in the fourball behind. And whether you're one of...

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Glynneath

Thursday, September 18, 2008

EVEN Max Boyce, the president of Glynneath Golf Club, would have struggled to get a bigger laugh. With the rain belting down, we were left in a...

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Swansea Bay

Thursday, September 18, 2008

YOU have to give a lot of credit to the people who designed Swansea Bay Golf Club. On what is not a particularly big parcel of land — and...

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Gower

Thursday, September 18, 2008

THIRTEEN years ago it produced pedigree cows, now it's a pedigree golf course. The Richards family decided to swap dairy for fairway in 1995,...

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Fairwood

Thursday, September 18, 2008

"WHATEVER you do," they told us, "just make sure you stay on the fairways." Easier said than done, we thought. As it turned out, this was sound...

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Clyne

Thursday, September 18, 2008

THERE was no lake between tee and green, no cavernous bunker blocking our path to the short stuff. But as we teed up on the par-three 12th at...

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Glyn Abbey

Thursday, September 18, 2008

DARREN Griffiths must think his old man had it easy. Former world champion Terry, after all, had six holes within a few feet when he was...

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Earlswood

Thursday, September 18, 2008

AT £10 a round, a knock at Earlswood is not that much more expensive than a game of crazy golf. But there are no windmills, railway tunnels or...

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