10 Things You Didn't Know About Royal Porthcawl

Here are 10 things you didn't know about Royal Porthcawl golf club, who hosted the 2025 AIG Women's Open

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00:00Royal Porthcourt has a long history of staging major amateur and professional tournaments,

00:16but this will be the first time the club welcomes the AIG Women's Open.

00:20Two former AIG Women's Open champions, Sofia Popov and Georgia Hall, took part in the 2011

00:34Vagliano Trophy at Royal Porthcourt.

00:42Royal Porthcourt is a signatory of the Women in Golf Charter and is committed to increasing

00:47female membership within the club's strategy.

00:55Royal Porthcourt member Darcy Harry won the Houlencourt Women's Open in Belgium to qualify

01:01for the final major of the year.

01:07The original course designer is Ramsey Hunter, but other contributors have included Harry

01:13Colt, Hawtree and J.H. Taylor, Tom Simpson and current architect Martin Ebert.

01:25You can see the sea from every hole and on a clear day you can see across to Somerset and

01:30the Gower.

01:35The Timber Clubhouse is a huge part of the Royal Porthcourt experience.

01:40It has to be one of the closest to the sea anywhere in the world.

01:50The course layout is quite unusual for a Lynx of its age as there is no out and back routing.

02:01For the AIG Women's Open hole 18 becomes the championship first and the normal first hole becomes the second

02:10and so forth.

02:16The boardwalk which runs along holes 2 to 4 is part of the Welsh Coast Path which runs

02:22the entire coastline of Wales which is 870 miles.

02:28The