Pyle and Kenfig Golf Club

Tel: +44(0)1656 772446

If it didn't have a Royal neighbour, P & K would enjoy a far wider reputation.

It has many fine qualities that distinguish it from Royal Pawthcawl, as competitors in the 2002 Amateur Championship discovered when both courses hosted the qualifying rounds of the tournament.

Although nearby, Pyle and Kenfig possesses much higher dunes and deeper, disconcerting valleys in a layout that offers plenty of diversity. Originally mapped out in 1922 by H. S. Colt, large chunks of the course were rquisitioned by the army in WWII after which it was decided to move seawards into dunesland that designer P. Mackenzie Ross described as a 'golfer's paradise'.

There are two loops of nine holes returning to the cosy clubhouse and the second half is regarded as the tougher of the two with the final three holes viewed as the hardest of the lot. Each over 400 yards and with a daunting tee shot towards deeply-bunkered problems, they promise a demanding finish that helps make a visit to the more fabled links down the road an incomplete experience if you don't include P & K in your itinerary