Which of these three courses to play : Royal St. David's, Pwllheli or Abersoch

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We'll be making our annual family pilgrimage to the Llyn Peninsula in April, last year I played Nefyn so looking for somewhere different this year.

The three logical choices are Royal St. David's, Pwllheli or Abersoch as I don't want to be driving too far from our base a few miles north of Nefyn.

Has anyone played any of the three and can give me a recommendation?
 
Echo duckster’s comments RSD is a nice course even though I struggled on some of the long par 3’s

Porthmadog is a great course, front 9 is parkland but when you cross the road to play the back 9 wow. It is one of the nicest links back 9 around and the views are amazing!
 
RSD - love this course and joined it as a result. Quite a number of long par 4s, offset with two short par 5s and if you are luckily enough to have made a score on the front nine, then hang on tight on the back nine as its tough. Only once shot my handicap there. 15th hole is brilliant.

Portmadog - Front nine & 18th parkland, hmm didn't do a lot for me, couple of nice holes in there. But when you cross back across the road to play some of the linkys holes(must be 7ish holes there?) they are great and the one round the bay is brilliant fun, hit a couple off the teeS, once you see the hole you will know why:) And the views are brilliant on this part of the course.

Aberdovey - Nice enough course, very friendly, but didn't blow me away, a lot of the holes are fairly straight and not really much trouble off the tee to get me thinking on the tee shot. Couple of great holes in the mix tho the driveableish par 4 16th(or was it the 17th?) and par 3 12th(I think).
 
I would go with Porthmadog, I was very underwhelmed with RSD. There is more to a golf course than the backdrop and it has few good holes until the very end.
 
Played Pwllheli a few times and its very nice but beware if theres a wind blowing along the coastal holes ( 8,9,10,11 if I remember correctly)
Portmadog another good course and very tough if its blowing a hooly
 
DaveR said:
I would go with Porthmadog, I was very underwhelmed with RSD. There is more to a golf course than the backdrop and it has few good holes until the very end.
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IanM said:
RSD has too many "ordinary" holes, but the good ones are very good and the setting is wonderful.
I prefered Aberdovy!
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Boo Hiss, you are both wrong :p:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:, RSD is a far better layout and overall a better test of golf than portmadog and aberdovey and you get the backdrop of a castle to look at with RSD :p

Only joking, everyone has their own opinions:)
 
Thanks for all the replies - food for though....

I am leaning towards RSD and having looked at Porthmadog - that might be my second choice...
 
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