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Porthmadog Golf Club is situated only a mile or so from Clough-Williams Ellis’ world famous Italianate village at Portmeirion where the TV series “The Prisoner” was filmed - and Porthmadog’s intriguing mixture of heath and linksland can be just as captivating. Created at the turn of the century by James Braid, the genius course designer of his day, the course has two distinct halves.
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The front nine are away from the coast and although the soil is sandy the terrain is more accurately described as heathland. But is is none the worse for that, especially with the presence of water making itself felt on five of the holes. The back nine head for the sea, and some beautiful scenery, and the course is transformed into pure links that have been likened to a miniature Troon.
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