Portmadog Golf Club

Portmadog Golf Club traces its origins to 1905, making it one of the older clubs on the Gwynedd coast. The course lies near Porthmadog, a harbour town built in the early nineteenth century around the slate trade, when a long embankment, the Cob, was constructed across the Glaslyn estuary to reclaim land and create a working port. That industrial history has since given way to tourism, with the narrow-gauge Ffestiniog Railway running from the town up into the slate country of Blaenau Ffestiniog, and Cardigan Bay opening out to the south-west. Porthmadog sits at the edge of Snowdonia, with the national park's mountains visible inland and long sandy beaches along the nearby coast. Golfers combining a round here with a wider trip through Gwynedd are within easy reach of both the coast and the mountains, a combination that has drawn visitors to this stretch of Wales for well over a century.