True Links Courses

[Spoff]

Something I am yet to experience and really want to is a true links test.

I'm aware from articles and the like some clubs say they're links when they're not. Sure I read somewhere there is only a small number of true links courses in play.

From my base in West Yorkshire where will the closest one be?

 

[Dodger]

http://www.goswicklinksgc.co.uk/

come and sample THE best links in Northern England.

 

[USER1999]

It certainly is nice Dodger

Well worth a visit. Especially if you can get a lesson in links golf from Dodger and IM02 at the same time.

To my mind, a true links course is sand based, and built on wasteland between the railway line and the sea.

It also needs to be blowing a gale, and possibly raining.

 

[Dodger]

You had it all in those two days Murph!

 

[slugger]

why does it need to have a railway line?

 

[Spoff]

http://www.goswicklinksgc.co.uk/

come and sample THE best links in Northern England.

Link sent to the lad I will be playing with.

 

[Farneyman]

Links is the infertile land between the sea and land that is usefull for agriculture.

Proper golf in my opinion.

 

[ADB]

If you ever fancy a links mini break you can do worse than the East cost of Kent where courses such as Princes, Royal Cinq Ports and Royal St Georges are all within close proximity of each other. Fantastic fun and a real challenge.

 

[Smiffy]

why does it need to have a railway line?

Before cars were an everyday mode of transport, a train was the only way to get golfers out to the course.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Can't beat trying to stop an 8 iron downwind from 160 yards or hitting driver, 3 wood and wedge into a shortish par 4 in a headwind. It is the truest form of the game and a real challenge. I love playing it and could spend days just chipping and putting on links greens and learning the art of playing different shots in different conditions (not forgetting the pot bunkers)

 

[heronsghyll]

As a purest, I believe Links is the ultimate in golf. Take a trip to Scotland and play a few courses and you will love it.

 

[CrapHacker]

Question.

Should it be easier for a links golfer to change his game to playing a parkland style course, or vice versa ?

 

[Farneyman]

I believe as a links players (poorer) that I could play better on a parkland course due to the pretty constant wind on the links. I may be totally wrong and swing like a donkey on a parkland.

 

[mono217]

Isnt st andrews a links.

 

[Smiffy]

Isnt st andrews a links.

Nope
Parkland

 

[viscount17]

spoff, second Goswick. I played with the guys who knew how, scary and magic all at once.
Good food at the clubhouse, good pubs in town, and some decent B&B's - make a weekend of it.

 

[backwoodsman]

why does it need to have a railway line?

Because you need somewhere to lose a ball and a true links doesn't have any lakes in which to do so. (the sea doesn't count...)

 

[Cernunnos]

Well Royal St Davids in North Wales has a railway line between it & the rest of the mainland. And has the advantage of two distinct types of Links characteristics that can be found.

I'd really like to play more Links golf than I get the chance to.

 

[CliveW]

Isnt st andrews a links.

Nope
Parkland

Since when?
http://www.standrews.org.uk/

 

[backwoodsman]

Isnt st andrews a links.

Nope
Parkland

Since when?
http://www.standrews.org.uk/

Awww. C'mon...

Everyone knows that the supposed "St Andrews" you see on the telly for the Open & stuff isn't the real one.