Three courses inside two miles, and one of them wraps the park.
The Grove is at the boundary, Royal Porthcawl and Pyle and Kenfig are both inside two miles, and Southerndown is nine miles along the coast.
- Wrapping the park boundary
- The Grove, four minutes to the tee
- Held the 2025 AIG Women’s Open
- Royal Porthcawl
- Three courses
- Inside two miles
- The Senior Open returns
- 2027
The Grove wraps the park boundary.
A parkland course, open to non-members, wrapping the boundary of the park. The fairways are a quarter of a mile from the pitches and the clubhouse is four minutes by road, because you go round the boundary rather than through it. There is a restaurant and a bar for afterwards.
Royal Porthcawl, Pyle and Kenfig, and Southerndown.
Royal Porthcawl
A mile and a halfIt held the 2025 AIG Women's Open, and it has served as a Senior Open Championship venue.
Pyle and Kenfig
Under a mileThe front nine has a parkland feel and the back nine plays through dramatic dunes.
Southerndown
Nine milesAbove the Bristol Channel, on fast draining limestone that keeps it playable year round. Bernard Darwin wrote of it as the natural companion to Royal Porthcawl.
Six more, ready for you to explore.
The Senior Open comes back to Royal Porthcawl.
It returns in 2027, having been held there in 2014, 2017 and 2023. The course is a mile and a half from the park, a few minutes in the car.
Rest Bay is seven minutes away.
Seven beaches are within a short drive, and the coast page puts every one of them on the map with the park.