Celtic Manor, The Twenty Ten

Terry Matthews was born in the maternity hospital that once stood on this site outside Newport. He later bought the ground and opened a resort on it in 1982. In 2001 the resort won the bid for the 2010 Ryder Cup and then built a course to hold it — the Twenty Ten, the first course anywhere designed for the match, made from nine holes of the old Wentwood Hills layout and nine new ones. The Ryder Cup ran from 27 September to 4 October 2010; Europe won 14½–13½. The Wales Open was played here from 2000 to 2014, and again in 2020.

Water is in play on half of the eighteen holes. The resort credits the design to Robert Trent Jones Jnr and Ross McMurray, in two stages: the early holes keep a links character, with long rough and swales around the greens, before the middle stretch opens into the lake-lined ground below. A 120-metre suspension bridge, the Twenty Ten, cost £2 million and carries players over the River Usk from the practice ground. The trouble is saved for the end, and the last of the 7,493 yards on the card is the hole the resort calls a sting in the tail. The Roman Road course, by Robert Trent Jones, and Colin Montgomerie's own layout share the same hill.