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12 pp. Illustrated from 4 photographs (including one of the author and two showing Pennard Castle), small vignette and hole drawings (including how play between the ancient ruins and Pennard Castle at the 8th hole), a plan of the entire course; plus several ads throughout for local businesses, including one on back cover for Pleasance & Harper Ltd. 7x4¾, original saddle stitched light green wrappers, printed in dark purple. First Edition.

Scarce little instructional booklet for playing the Pennard Golf Course in Swansea, Wales, which was designed by James Braid in 1896. Watts was the resident professional at Pennard and was a Welsh Champion during the early 1930's. "Pennard...perched on the cliffs overlooking Three Cliffs Bay, is, in a word, unforgettable...often called 'links in the sky' because it has all of the mounds, gorse and sand of a seaside course as well as the views of a mountain layout. Near the seventh fairway, wild ponies graze in the ruins of Pennard Castle. Facing southwest from the seventh green and eighth tee, Three Cliffs Bay and its wide sandy beach fill the horizon. Holes sixteen and seventeen are close to the bluffs where the wind lays siege" - worldgolf.com. Not in Donovan & Murdoch nor found in any other references or auction records consulted. A Previously unrecorded item.