As someone who travels extensively to golf clubs all over the UK&I both for work and for pleasure, it’s always exciting to receive an invitation to return to an old haunt to see something new and different. It was therefore with great interest that in early Spring I headed back to south-west Wales and to the lovely town of Tenby where the club has been reinventing itself in an excellent way.
Golf In South Pembrokeshire
With regular visits to Wales going back many years, I have increasingly felt that its many lesser-known courses are underrated and deserving of greater attention. I was therefore very much looking forward to my return to Tenby Golf Club, one of the nation’s more prominent fixtures in the Next 100 of Golf Monthly’s UK&I course rankings, as well as a couple of quite different courses not far from this lovely harbour town.
Stylish and very welcoming, the clubhouse at Tenby has been transformed
(Image credit: Tenby Golf Club)
My home from home for this early-season trip was to be the newly refurbished and extended clubhouse at Tenby, some 70 miles west of the nation’s leading course, Royal Porthcawl. Here, ten superior rooms, The Dunes, serve as a new and very enticing alternative to the established and very comfortable dormy house.
My spacious room, with a balcony staring right down the opening hole, was immediately above The Links, the club’s excellent restaurant. I can very enthusiastically recommend both the delicious food and the friendliest service.
South Pembrokeshire
Looking back from beyond the 3rd green at South Pembrokeshire
(Image credit: Stefan Ashby)
Slightly further west are two interesting and quite unusual courses that border the wide Milford Haven Waterway. Oddly to me as a lover of the countryside, the industrial make-up of this shipping lane actually adds to the visual interest. My first port of call was for a game with Peter Rice, the president of South Pembrokeshire Golf Club.
Rob putting on the 15th green at South Pembrokeshire
(Image credit: Jeremy Ellwood)
The course opened as a nine-holer in 1969, at which time its home was a part of the very distinct Old Defensible Barracks, which were built in 1844. When a second nine was added nearly 30 years ago, the club moved to today’s purpose-built clubhouse.
The clubhouse at South Pembrokeshire was once situated inside the old barracks
(Image credit: Stefan Ashby)
Standout holes are the excellent 5th, with its scary…
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