Anyone who has ever played at Welshpool Golf Club will remember it as a great experience and a great test of golf. Most visitors come from the West Midlands and newcomers are always amazed by the breathtaking scenery found all over the course.


It was designed by the veteran champion James Braid in the early part of the last century and the giant peaks of Snowdon and Cader Idris are both discernible in the wonderful vistas of mountain scenery. John Stutt of Paisley, who built the course, likened it to the famous Gleneagles course. He insisted, however, that Gleneagles does not offer anything like the spectacular shots with which Welshpool abounds.


To quote Bernard Darwin, a famous golfing writer of his day, "It is a Golf Club of Dreams", adding after playing the course for the first time, "how incomplete has been my golfing education until I had seen it".