Travelling 

For those playing Friday and live in the Coventry area I suggest you leave around 08:00 am as the travel time is round 3 hours 11mins following M5 and M4. The post code for your SatNav is SA16 OHN. For those just travelling direct to the hotel it should take you around 3 hours. Leaving Ashburnham Golf Club after the golf & travelling to The Dragon Hotel in Swansea is around 17 miles and will take you around 42 minutes. Download your own copy of the "Timeline Guideline" here

Golf on Saturday is at Pennard Golf Club and is around 8 miles away that should take you around 22 minutes. The first tee time is 13:08 so you need to look to leave the hotel no later than around 11:15 to give plenty of time the other end. (Breakfast finishes at 10 anyway)

Golf on Sunday takes us to Machynys golf club which is around 11 miles away from the hotel which should take about 27 minutes. So with the first tee time being 11:57 you should be looking to leave no later than 10:00 am to get there in plenty of time. There is a complementary meal after the golf on Sunday so all being well we should get away for 19:30, so you will not be back until very late Sunday evening (Please plan this into you weekend, click here to print your own copy of the itinerary)

 Staying 

The Dragon Hotel is Swansea’s premier 4-star, hotel located in the heart of the city centre. Over £3.5 million has been spent on this top Swansea hotel to offer guests excellent hotel accommodation, superb leisure facilities and free on-site parking (subject to availability) in the heart of Swansea City. Checkout their website here for full details. rooming details below.

Friday & Saturday (27)

 Playing 

Golf on the Friday there are some 19 golfers who are travelling up early on Friday morning and playing the practice round at Ashburnham Golf Club. One of the finest Welsh links courses; we celebrated our centenary in 1994 by hosting the Amateur Home Internationals. The Welsh Open PGA was hosted at the Ashburnham Golf Club in 2010, this being testament to the continued superb standard of our course. This has been the latest in a long line of important tournaments held here since 1900’s. The address for your SatNav is Cliff Terrace Burry Port, Carmarthenshire SA16 0HN. This links course is a Par 72 playing some 6627 yards.

Saturday morning we venture into Swansea and Pennard Golf Club. Pennard is a magnificent links course situated 8 miles west of Swansea, with spectacular views over Three Cliffs Bay on the Gower Peninsula, designated the UK's first area of outstanding natural beauty. The fairways and greens are surrounded by gorse and heather with a fabulous layout measuring 6267 yards par 71; 6800 yards off new championship tees.  With 5 Par 3s all playing in different directions, Pennard is unique and interesting to play. Click here to see the draw.

Sunday we travel to Llanelli and Machynys Golf Club. It Opened in a blaze of publicity in 2005, Machynys is a Nicklaus designed 7121 yard modern links golf course that has already hosted an unprecedented 8 championships, including 2 R&A Open Championships and 4 Ryder Cup Wales LET Championships of Europe. The youngest course ever to be awarded an R&A championship, Machynys is a test for the lower handicapper and yet is still enjoyable for the higher handicapper, by utilising up to five tees per hole. Click here to see the draw.

 What is a Links Course 

A traditional links course will have many - perhaps all - of the following features:

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• The course is built along the seaside.
• The soil is sandy and drains easily.
• The course is laid out naturally, so that unusual bumps and slopes in the fairways and

   greens remain, rather than being smoothed over.
• The rough features natural seaside grasses.
• Bunkers are numerous, and while they range from very small to very large, are

   typically deep (to keep the seaside breezes from blowing the sand away)
• Fairways are rarely (if ever) watered - except by nature - and play firm and fast.
• Links courses usually have few if any trees