Llanwern Golf Club

Llanwern Golf Club dates from 1928 and lies in the village of Llanwern, just outside Newport in south-east Wales. The 18-hole course plays to a par of 70 over 6,177 yards, a layout on the shorter side of a full championship length. Newport sits close to the Severn Estuary and the M4 corridor linking Cardiff with Bristol and the south-west of England, and the surrounding area combines the steelworks heritage the town is known for with pockets of open countryside around villages such as Llanwern. The club is also within a few miles of the Celtic Manor Resort, host of the 2010 Ryder Cup, which has made this part of Newport a focal point for golf in Wales over the past two decades. Now approaching its centenary, Llanwern has been part of the local sporting landscape since the interwar years, long before the motorway or the modern resort development changed the character of the area around it.