Garland,
I've not found the old GCA tour of SBGC but I wrote a little summary about Swansea Bay in the recent 'What a spectacular piece of land' thread. The thread was really about a piece of land opposite Southerndown but expanded, as they do, into S.Wales generally. "I understand that Swansea Bay GC is the original/first golf course in the Swansea area. Late 1800's I believe. Built on low lying linksland-come-estuary area close to where the River Neath joins the sea. Numerous industrial development, some now gone, progressed east of Swansea Docks in the 19thC and around Briton Ferry/Baglan etc too plus later the (now gone) oil refinery at Llandarcy. Now there's the motorway bridges and the dual-carriageway that splits the course in two. Must have been a nice spot once-upon-a-time, but now it kind of reminds me of the opening credits to the Soprano's where Tony's driving his car along the freeway with heavy industrialisation in the background. See -
http://www.swanseabaygolfclub.co.uk/ - for more about SBGC." and see -
http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,59184.0.htm - for the other thread mentioned above.
As to Langland Bay, it came along later than SBGC (& Pennard) and although it may look coastal from a satmap I go along with what Duncan says, namely that it's a headland course.
While on the subject of Swansea area courses, there's a tour of Clyne GC from 2003 but the photos don't come up on my computer. Is this just my computer or do photos from a long time ago somehow drop off 'the system'?
atb