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Beneath
the stern gaze of Harlech Castle, Edward I’s
mighty fortress, the Royal St David’s is one of Wales’
premier links courses. It occupies the dune land
reclaimed from the sea within the Morfa Harlech
Site of Special Scientific Interest. This, together
with the mountains of Snowdonia offering a
magnificent natural backdrop, makes it difficult to find
a finer golf course. With its succession of long par
4s, and five short holes, it’s been widely described
by professionals as the ‘hardest par 69 in the
world’, providing a demanding test of the game.
It
was recently chosen by Ian Woosnam as one of his
five best British golf courses. Laid out in 1894, at
the end of the first great golfing boom, the founding
fathers of the club deliberately named it after
St David, Wales’ own patron saint, with the aim
of developing a Welsh equivalent of St Andrew’s
in Scotland, and St George’s in Sandwich.
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