Early Days / Dyddiau Cynnar

Saturday August 16th 1913 saw the official opening of the Bull Bay course .The opening of the nine hole course attracted a large and fashionable assembly among who were the Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey and a distinguished party according to the Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury
 
The laying out of the course at Bull Bay and the building of the clubhouse was borne by the Marquis on whose land the links were established.This connection between the house of Plas Newydd and the town of Amlwch dated back to 1790 when the harbour wasw built
 
William Herbert Fowler of Walton Heath was responsible for the designing and laying out of the course Fowler was a London born son of a barrister who trained in law but above all was a cricketer.He played for essex,Somerset and the M CC during his eleven years of first class cricket .He first played golf at the age of twenty three when he went to Bideford in Devon and on borrowing a set of clubs took up the game and became a member of the R and A in 1894.
He made the most of the undulating land that nature provided at Bull Bay - no concerns about asking the golfer to take on blind shots and carrying some major distances.
 
Fowler designed numerous courses but the work he did at Walton Heath Surrey was probably influential on his undertaking the design of Bull Bay.David Lloyd George .the Prime Minister ,was a member at Walton Heath and probably was known to the Marquiss of Anglesey hence Fowler's initial involvement at Bull Bay .
 
According to Fowler it was only essential to have side hazards during course construction - hence the present grass bunker on Bull Bay's current 17th hole (the 8th hole on the original hole course).Fowler was of the opinion that bunkers should be situated at the sides of greens believing that players sliced or hooked more often than they topped a ball.