Cardiff Golf Club is gearing up for its first national tournament in 19 years with the Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Welsh National PGA Championship being held at the South Glamorgan course on 4-6 September.
The last time the prestigious tournament was held at the course in 1988, former Ryder Cup captain and home-crowd favourite Ian Woosnam scooped the top position.
Prize money for Wales' premier national championship this year will be £42,500, with the winner receiving in excess of £6,000 and automatic qualification for the 2008 Celtic Manor Wales Open.
Terry Hanson, who runs the club shop at Cardiff, turned professional the year after Woosnam's triumph and in the intervening years has overseen a multitude of improvements on the course, turning it into the unique challenge it is today.
"This course can seem very easy, but it all depends on the pin positions," he said. "Some days you can play and it can all seem almost too easy but then they'll change the pin positions and it can make it extremely difficult indeed.
"The greens are quite undulating and they can be forgiving one day, but then very unforgiving the next."
He added: "We're all very happy to have a major championship here again. The course has been good enough to host for a while now, and to finally get to stage one is brilliant.
"I think the members will enjoy having the competition here and it'll put Cardiff Golf Club back on the map. The city has grown around the course, and we are very much a city course - we're only 10 minutes from the Millennium Stadium, and I think a lot of people forgot the course was even here."
There will be a special twist this year with the proceeds from the tournament's official pro-am on Monday 3 September being donated to Ryder Cup Wales' official charity, Tenovus.
Cath Morgan, project co-ordinator for the cancer charity, said: "This link with Ryder Cup Wales and the PGA is a great boost for Tenovus. It's thanks to the support of such partnerships that Tenovus can not only raise funds but help raise the charity's profile."
Rob Holt, chief executive of Ryder Cup Wales, commented, "Ryder Cup Wales is delighted to partner the PGA at these events (Ryder Cup Wales 2010 is also sponsoring the Welsh Open Young PGA Professional and Welsh Open events plus the WPGA One Day Series) as part of our annual Summer of Golf programme which we deliver as part of our commitments in the successful Ryder Cup bid.
"The Summer of Golf has transformed the golfing calendar throughout Wales which features fantastic golf events and attracts world class players."