Conwy is a par 72. It is undoubtedly a tough course - brutal in a strong wind - but it's not the sort of architecture you would write home about. The holding of R&A and Senior Professional tournaments there have enabled the conditioning to be enhanced (it needed it) and the bunkers are far better than they were a year or two ago, but the architecture has simply evolved over the years. The tumbling dunes seen in those old Douglas Adams prints were worn down in both World Wars when the course housed large military camps - in the Second World War much of the Mulberry Harbour D-Day landing floating harbour was built behind what is now the 2nd green and 3rd tee. Today's layout, then, is largely what remains of what the members put together after the War. Frank Pennink made alterations to the holes farthest from the clubhouse (alongside the sea), but it was the building of the A55 tunnel under the Conwy Estuary that caused some holes on the back nine to be lost and replacement holes constructed - holes 13-17. Brian Huggett and Neil Coles made further alterations.
Many of the original greens were dug up when water was layed on to the greens. There were a number of punchbowl greens, so designed to hold dew in dry weather. Today's greens are largely simple, apart from the reecent second, put in by David Williams, a real cracker.
I'll do a 'my Home Course' feature one of these days, but put in the postcode of LL32 8ER if you want to find it on Google or Virtual Earth :