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Prestatyn Golf Club

Prestatyn, Denbighshire · Designed by Fred Collins (1906) · Est. 1905

Prestatyn Golf Club was founded in 1905, with a full eighteen holes in play by November 1906 after Fred Collins of Llandudno laid out the course along the foreshore at Barkby Beach. It is the most northerly course on the Welsh mainland, spread across 150 acres of natural links land on the north coast, and a Welsh championship venue over the years.

It is a proper par-72 links — dunes, ditches, firm seaside turf and an ever-present wind off the Irish Sea. Because the ground drains so freely, Prestatyn stays playable and true right through the winter, when many inland courses are closed or heavy. Nine of the original fairways were lost to development in 1921, but a replacement nine was in play within a year, and the full links has endured since.

The town of Prestatyn marks the northern end of the Offa's Dyke Path and has a long sandy seafront, making the club a friendly, excellent-value base on the North Wales coast.

Holes worth knowing

1The links holes along Barkby Beach — the course runs over classic foreshore duneland with the Irish Sea alongside and the wind never far away.
2The ditch-and-dune stretch — Prestatyn is defended by cross-ditches and firm, running turf as much as by length; keep the ball low and place it off the tee.

Highlights

The most northerly links on the Welsh mainland
150 acres of natural foreshore links land
Drains freely — a reliable all-year links
Friendly and outstanding value

Good to know

→Prestatyn is the most northerly course on the Welsh mainland and drains beautifully — one of the most dependable all-year, wet-weather links in Wales.
→It is firm and fast: use the ground, take the low running shot into the wind, and beware the cross-ditches that catch a lazy lay-up.
→The town marks the northern end of the 177-mile Offa's Dyke Path and has a long sandy seafront; the dramatic ruins of Denbigh and Rhuddlan castles are a short drive inland.
→The nearby Clwydian Range (an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) offers fine hillwalking, and the Victorian resort of Llandudno is 30 minutes west.
→It combines easily with Conwy, North Wales and the Anglesey links for a superb-value North Wales coastal golf week.