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Dinas Dinlle Golf Course, Llandwrog, Gwynedd. (1906 – 1920s)
Little is known of the long lost golf links.
The nine-hole course was laid out around and within the Dinas Dinlle Iron Age fort.
There is evidence that the course first appeared in 1906 and was re-founded in 1913. The course reappeared in the 1920's.
Report from the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald and North and South Wales Independent 8 June 1906 – “The links at Dinas Dinlle were formally opened on Thursday, when a number of matches - gentlemen’s singles and ladies’ singles and gentlemen foursome - were played. Mr Douglas Tuner won the gentlemen’s singles; Miss Roberts, Hendregaerog, the ladies’ singles; Douglas Turner and Mr E W Jones the gentlemen’s foursome. Colonel Ruck, president of the club, which has a membership of about 100, presented the prizes in gentlemen’s singles.”
The North Wales Express 31 May 1907 – “We are sorry to understand that the attempt to establish a Golf Club at Dinas Dinlle has failed, mainly due to the inaccessibility of the links from Carnarvon.”
An advert for the Carnarvon Bay Hotel appeared in June 1913 and July 1914 which included a mention for the golf course.
An advert for the Carnarvon Bay Hotel appeared in June 1913 and July 1914 which included a mention for the golf course.
Further advert for the course in 1916.
Liverpool Echo Friday 8 September 1916. Image © Trinity Mirror. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
The golf links are marked to the south of the fort on the map below.
Ordnance Survey Map © Crown Copyright {1920}
The Carnarvon Bay Hotel and golf course for auction in September 1918.
Holyhead Mail and Anglesey Herald Friday 20 September 1918. Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Further evidence of the golf course came to light when an archaeological dig took place there in 2019.