Golf
The 9th/18th hole is a challenging 523 yard dog-leg right with the approach to the green sloping downhill to the left
Priskilly Forest Phil Evans
Opening for play in June 1992, Priskilly Forest Golf Club is a nine-hole, parkland course located about five miles from the west Wales coast. Meticulously maintained throughout the year, the
family-run course offers an excellent challenge of golf set in wonderful
Pembrokeshire countryside, as Mike Bird discovered on a recent visit
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A ‘great’ little place C
onstructed on sixty acres of former farmland, Priskilly Forest Golf Club takes its name from the ancient mixed woodland that borders the eastern flank of the
400 acre mixed farm that has been owned and managed by the Evans family since 1948.
When the family first took possession of
Priskilly Forest Farm around sixty-five years ago, the land supported a range of arable crops, Friesian milking cows and a pedigree Hereford beef herd. To supplement farming income, farmhouse bed and breakfast accommodation was offered from the very early days, providing a welcome stopover for the growing number of tourists travelling to west Wales to take in the spectacular scenery of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, established in 1952. Today, Priskilly Forest Country House and Golf Club has become a significant
stand-alone business in its own right, offering award-winning five-star guest accommodation and good food alongside the first-class nine-hole golf course established in 1992.
Owned and managed by husband and wife, Phil and Joy Evans, the business is very much a family affair with son, Robert, and daughter, Rebecca, being the fourth generation of the family to have lived and worked at Priskilly Forest Farm. The first major change to farming practises came in the early 1970s when the dairy herd was sold, enabling the farm to concentrate fully on production of pedigree beef cattle and arable crops. These two enterprises flourished comfortably alongside each other until the late 1980s.
“Livestock prices plummeted when
BSE reared its ugly head,” recalls Phil. “As it appeared unlikely that there would be a speedy recovery, we decided to look for an
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