Few golf courses in Britain carry quite the raw, weatherbeaten character of Bull Bay, which occupies the northern tip of Anglesey — the most exposed and elemental stretch of an island already defined by wind and sea. Opened in 1913 and laid out along coastal heathland above the Irish Sea, it is one of Wales's oldest clubs and one of its least compromised, a course that has resisted the urge to modernise itself into blandness.
The layout is a genuine links-heathland hybrid: gorse-lined fairways, firm turf, and views across to the Menai Strait and the mountains of Snowdonia that can distract even the most focused player. Par 70 suits the terrain — the course doesn't need length to test you when the wind off the Irish Sea decides to arrive.
Anglesey itself rewards the travelling golfer. The island sits at the far northwestern corner of Wales, connected to the mainland by Telford's famous suspension bridge, and the combination of coastal drama and quieter inland farming landscape gives it a character entirely its own.
