The golfers were bet that they could not play through from Radyr in Cardiff to the golf club at Southerndown, a distance of 20 miles.

[3][4] It has hosted the PGA Welsh National Championship six times as of April 2016, the last of which was in July 2015.

[6] Trudy Carradice, in the book Golf in Wales: A Pictorial History described the course as follows: Radyr is a parkland course, albeit one with a few steep climbs and drops.

The finishing hole is a classic example of this, a straight drive being needed to take you to the top of the hill before dropping sharply down to a sunken green close to the front of the clubhouse.

Ditches, hedges and the occasional stretch of water provide other hazards that golfers might find better to avoid.