Westward and slightly north up the coast sits Southerndown Golf Club, a grass-roots establishment in Bridgend overlooking the Bristol Channel. Perhaps the club’s most notable element is its ability to parlay a truly experiential round of golf, beginning with a large board just off the entrance that dictates the daily tee sheet. Howling wind patterns in the late summer to early autumn timeframe, while testing, add to the ambience of the club and relay the genuine truth of what a United Kingdom course would be expected to embrace. Views of the sea from the 6,449-yard course and a traditional clubhouse remain reminiscent of the club’s establishment in 1905. Gorse bushes throughout the course whisper what golf high above the limestone dunes must have been like more than a century ago. Occupying 230 acres of Ogmore Down Common, an estimated 700 sheep roam the course at Southerndown, overseeing their home territory and kindly sharing it with members and visiting pin seekers.