Do you like golf courses to be green and lush and tree-lined with bright sand? If so, read no further, coz this is not what you get at Clyne.
Now if you like rural, rustic, rugged courses made by men with picks and shovels aided by horses and scoops on windy common land still roamed by animals where side hill lies are often the order well you ought to like Clyne, laid out by Harry Colt on a plateau type hilltop west of Swansea.
Here are a few photos to give you a flavour. Worth noting is that the course has only 3 full-time green staff.
Below - downhill par-5 3rd
Below - knob-to-knob like par-3 4th
Camera issues so photos of holes in the middle of the round are missing.
Below - par-3 12th
Below - par-4 13th with rather nicely used crossing gully
Below - the up-n-over a rise par-5 14th - bumpy/knobly fairway a-la Kington
Below - the par-4 15th
Below - the up-n-over a rise par-5 16th with views of Mumbles Head in the background
Below - the uphill par-3 17th - shades of Yelverton here
Below - the severely downhill back to the clubhouse 18th with views of Swansea in the distance
Some new friends happily grazing on the 10th tee (behind the 18th green)
So that's a few views of Clyne. Shades of Kington, Yelverton etc. Strong par-3's, well it is a Colt, and an interesting journey all the way around.
One other comment worth making is the helpfulness and efficiency of the staff and the friendliness of the membership. A few of us stayed in the nice onsite dormy accommodation eating in the clubhouse and had a thoroughly good time...including snooker with the members and plenty of golf-chat.
For long distance traveling visitors the desire to drive a few miles down the road and play Pennard will most likely be a priority. If you have the opportunity though, try and play Clyne. Indeed if you stay-n-play at Clyne the very obliging Secretary will fix you a game at both.atb