Leftitshort
Well-known member
So not a links, just somewhere with no trees?
The Inspiration
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No such thing as inland links even more so when on reclaimed swamp or by a motorway - it’s basically just an open field with no trees and is windy hence why they call them inland links. Guess they are closer to moorland courses
BubbaP
Occasional Player of Golf
Aye, more marketing speak to make it sound more enticing..
Leftitshort
Well-known member
I’m being slightly tongue in cheek. I played an ‘inland links’ once. It had been a rubbish dump. Seemed appropriate
BubbaP
Occasional Player of Golf
My first membership was at one (before the days of discounts for working youngsters), and I quite liked it. Although they did let the rough go out of control one summer.Looked it up recently and seemed as though it changed hands and they'd planted a load of trees.
Back to the OP - it looks fairly interesting. The design pair mentioned did the place I've played the last few years, and I think are fairly well respected.
Mark1751
Assistant Pro
It is to many people.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
True but this tends to make them drain a bit better than other courses in the area.
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
Very short par 3s by modern standards.
Crow
Crow Person
I'm a member at one.
sunshine
Well-known member
Mill Green is never an inland links*.
Courses - Mill Green Golf Club
Mill Green Golf Club in Hertfordshire has two courses, a 6,500 yard championship course and a 9-hole par 3 course suitable for golfers of any standard.
www.millgreengolf.co.uk
(*although I agree with Phil there isn't really such a thing)
sunshine
Well-known member
Inspiration is better than when it was originally called West London Links.
The name sounds very American to me.
They are also building a course in Edgware, which is going to be called the Legacy Club, which is equally American sounding.
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Backsticks
Assistant Pro
Its Malcolm Tucker.
Spinning a virtue out if necessity. Rather than wait decades for trees to grow, if you are prepared to move enough earth around into humps, its a way of having 'instant golf course'. No trees ? Tell people its an inland links. They like the idea of links. Brilliant.
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
I doubt many tho. If people can afford to play golf they aren't struggling on the bread line for day to day so £12.50 extra on top of the green fee for a day out isn't going to break the bank.
pendodave
Tour Rookie
Not to many people that want to become members of a golf club in North West London.
While I admire the virtuous sentiments, I was just trying to put it in context for those from outside the crazy world of South East England membership fees.
It's definitely not relatively expensive for the area.
It's always depressing seeing the prices that people pay to play at quality courses points North and west.
pendodave
Tour Rookie
Despite the approbation up thread, I think that this pretty well describes MG. Apart from the holes that aren't!!
Maybe we should have a different category for "landfill links"?
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In my day a landfill site was known as a dump. Maybe dump would be a suitable categorisation ie. "This course is a dump"
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Not a fan of the name and is there such a thing as an inland links. Will be worth a visit in time but may let the course, especially the greens bed in a little first and the initial flood of visitors quieten down
sunshine
Well-known member
I imagine the majority of customers will live inside the ULEZ already.
PhilTheFragger
Provider of Entertainment for the Golfing Gods 🙄
Possibly, but only 2 miles inside ULEZ so think it will attract interest from outside.
Just mentioned it in passing as a possible consideration for some peeps
Mark1751
Assistant Pro
£1850 for 7 day membership and £1550 for a 5 day membership, both get similar access to the 9 hole over the road and 1000/500 range balls as well. Club house to start work at end of year so have temporary one at present.
