Celtic Manor Golf Resort

Kind of a K-Club of Wales if you will. A massive resort hotel, conference center in South Wales, with three 18 hole golf courses, one created specially for the 2010 Ryder Cup, and appropriately named Twenty Ten. The course is a bit overrated, and overpriced, but a decent parkland style course. It plays to 7,493 yards, par 71, and is routed through the Usk Valley, providing an amphitheater style setting for the Cup. Some links type holes in a parkland setting, with water coming into play on 9 holes, with its share of risk/reward challenges. Excellent conditions, impeccable service, but you do pay for it. Roman Road, the first of the Resort’s courses, opened in 1995 and was designed by Robert Trent Jones, and overlooks the Severn Estuary with views across to Somerset and Devon. It was named after the many Roman roads that criss-cross it, but the design was arranged to avoid disrupting any remains. This challenging course offers a lot of variety, ranging from long, wide fairways and hilly terrain to deep ravines, lakes and streams. The Montgomerie Course was designed by Colin Montgomerie, the course measures 6,371 yards and has a par of 69. The course is rolling, but trees bordering and lining some fairways, otherwise, a links type feel, with pot bunkers throughout, playing to good sized greens.