00:10Royal 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.
00:25Two former AIG Women's Open champions, Sofia Popov and Georgia Hall, took part in the 2011
00:34Vagliano Trophy at Royal Porthcourt.
00:41Royal Porthcourt is a signatory of the Women in Golf Charter and is committed to increasing
00:47female membership within the club's strategy.
00:54Royal 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, Hoartree and J.H. Taylor, Tom Simpson and current architect Martin Ebert.
01:24You 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.
01:49The course layout is quite unusual for a lynx of its age as there is no out and back routing.
02:00For the AIG Women's Open hole 18 becomes the championship first and the normal first hole
02:08becomes the second and 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.
02:27The
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