Links course, please explain.

[johnboywalton]

Can someone please explain the definition of a "Links course".

They are opening a new golf course about 3 miles from my house, there is no Coast Line for 20 miles, the nearest stretch of water, is the "Thames"

It is being "built" on existing farmland, so the land is pretty flat and uninspiring.

They are advertising it as a Links course, but I do not know why

 

[CMAC]

links is the 'LINK' between the land and the sea, usually poor farming land hence the reason golf courses were built cheaply on it.

they are prob using the generic term to let people know its not a parkland type course, however, difficult to recreate without the sandy firm soil and wind associated with being by the sea

 

[Doh]

There are quite a few course's that have been built on parkland that have advertised themselfs as Links styal and indeed have been designed that way. But you cannot call them links,always look a bit strange to me. Also how can you hope to have the same ground conditions you get on a links course.

 

[jammag]

I maybe completely wrong here but I am sure I have seen a program on BBC think it was coast and they explained about links golf courses. Now I am sure they said it was called links something to do with having a railway link running alongside or near it?

I have also been told that a links course has to have sea water tide that will fill certain areas up in high tide. There is a course near me Brancaster which can only be played at certain times due as when its high tide the sea covers the car park I think and parts of the course.

 

[patricks148]

I think its a old scotts word. Meaning good for f*ck all else but to play golf on

 

[AllyLodge]

I thought it was because it was like a link, as in it goes for the first 9 holes north, then turns round for the next 9 holes back to the clubhouse. That or there is a beach being made as well as a golf course

 

[d2cko]

This book can explain links golf. And according to them there are only 246 in the world!

 

[CMAC]

I thought it was because it was like a link, as in it goes for the first 9 holes north, then turns round for the next 9 holes back to the clubhouse. That or there is a beach being made as well as a golf course

awww bless............ see my post, thats why its called a links, no other reason

 

[Imurg]

I thought it was "Jock" for Desolate wasteland but I could be wrong...

 

[sev112]

The first golf course was in Lincolnshire, then it went to Holland, and then apparently Scotland got in on the act

 

[USER1999]

It is gaelic for the surface of the moon.

To me, a links is built in the dunes, between the railway and the sea.

 

[dotty001]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(golf)

 

[Jaymosafehands]

This book can explain links golf. And according to them there are only 246 in the world!

great book, fantastic bog reading