The Welsh Golf Classic was a men's professional

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

tournament on the European Tour, that was held annually in

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from 1979 to 1982. The inaugural event was held at

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near

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, with the other three stagings taking place at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in Mid Glamorgan. The most notable winner was future two-time major championship winner Sandy Lyle. In its final year, the prize fund was £50,000, which was one of the smaller purses on the tour that year.

Winners

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Coverage on the European Tour's official site
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