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[Lord Tyrion]

Ganton is one of the finest inland links courses in the British Isles, hosting major competitions such as the 1949 Ryder Cup, the 2000 Curtis Cup and the 2003 ...

Taken from the Ganton website

 

[Imurg]

This sums up a lot of what is wrong in the world...everything has to be in categories....
They're golf courses...go play them......enjoy them
Who cares what category they're supposed to be in......to many is the answer to that.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Ganton is one of the finest inland links courses in the British Isles, hosting major competitions such as the 1949 Ryder Cup, the 2000 Curtis Cup and the 2003 ...

Taken from the Ganton website

Which will be solely aimed towards American Visitors looking for “links” - it’s only in the last couple of years they have added that

They recently called themselves a heathland course but US visitors don’t fly over to play a Heathland course outside Surrey

 

[Orikoru]

Inland links is a new idea where courses that aren’t cover in heather or trees but are built on sand based soil and open to elements get called Inland Links

But they aren’t links courses by any traditional meaning

Ganton has the soil and open to the wind but never would in be classed as a links course

It’s a moorland course for me

It’s missing the coastal soil , the elevating dunes , the rough isn’t also the red fescue type which is on traditional links courses and the greens also aren’t links

What it is though is very tough

Well no, they are inland links. Names don't have to be literal, they just evoke a certain idea. Someone has come up with the name 'inland links' for a course that feels like links because of the kind of turf and the design, but isn't truly links because it's not on the coast. You don't have gate-keep the word 'links' every time it comes up.

I will go back to an analogy I've used before - urinal cakes aren't actually made of cake, but it's just what they've called them for whatever reason. You don't see anyone debating why they're not actually cake.

 

[3 jabber]

I've got a diesel EV. It's got a diesel engine and a 12v battery.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Well no, they are inland links. Names don't have to be literal, they just evoke a certain idea. Someone has come up with the name 'inland links' for a course that feels like links because of the kind of turf and the design, but isn't truly links because it's not on the coast. You don't have gate-keep the word 'links' every time it comes up.

I will go back to an analogy I've used before - urinal cakes aren't actually made of cake, but it's just what they've called them for whatever reason. You don't see anyone debating why they're not actually cake.

Golf monthly Vs car dealers

Excuse me this car only has 4 doors not 5 that's a boot.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Home | Links Golf Club

www.linksgolfclub.co.uk

Here is a Links Golf club 60 miles from the sea.
More of a chalk downlands meethinks but was named over a century ago.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Home | Links Golf Club

www.linksgolfclub.co.uk

Here is a Links Golf club 60 miles from the sea.
More of a chalk downlands meethinks but was named over a century ago.

There was me thinking it was a new term from the yanks .. how uneducated of me...

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Home | Links Golf Club

www.linksgolfclub.co.uk

Here is a Links Golf club 60 miles from the sea.
More of a chalk downlands meethinks but was named over a century ago.

Ah Newmarket Links - played there regularly , very much chalk downland and they didn’t call it Newmarket Links because they believed it to be a links course

 

[Swango1980]

How do people find time to get any work done or do things in the real world?

I fit the people into three categories:

Retired: plenty of time on their hands

Office workers: easy access to Internet, and want distraction from boring Excel work

Argumentative: want stimulation by having a debate on just about anything being discussed.

I appreciate some may tick more than one category above, or there may be sub categories in each class. But, let's please not have a debate about that

 

[RichA]

My home course would be described as parkland. It's never been a park.
30 years ago it was 200 acres of farmland.
None of this is defined in law or the Rules of Golf so nobody worries about it.
Why do folk get hung up on what is or isn't a links? "Inland links" seems like a perfectly sensible way of describing a course's characteristics.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

My home course would be described as parkland. It's never been a park.
30 years ago it was 200 acres of farmland.
None of this is defined in law or the Rules of Golf so nobody worries about it.
Why do folk get hung up on what is or isn't a links? "Inland links" seems like a perfectly sensible way of describing a course's characteristics.

Going to get my driver to drive me to the course today.. what could go wrong?.

I mean my irons left my work shirts a bit of a state

 

[Swango1980]

I play a links course, with exceptions. These are:

It is near Lincoln, nowhere near sea

Lots and lots of trees

Ground is clay based, generally soft fairways unless in drought

 

[clubchamp98]

Looks like a heathland course to me.

Ganton used to be under the sea many years ago!
It’s why it’s sand based so the big waste areas are very like a links course.

It must have been a links at sometime.

This was relayed to me by one of the members when I was working there.

 

[Mel Smooth]

There is no such thing as an inland links. By definition it is the sandy based land that 'links' the arable farming land to the sea. Inland links is a term created by Americans that don't understand the concept.

Ganton used to be under the sea many years ago!
It’s why it’s sand based so the big waste areas are very like a links course.

It must have been a links at sometime.

This was relayed to me by one of the members when I was working there.

I walked it in April, beautiful course and totally sand based. It definitely is inland links.
The vale of Pickering was once a North Sea inlet, which gives it the sandy soil as the member described

 

[3 jabber]

I walked it in April, beautiful course and totally sand based. It definitely is inland links.

I'd like to agree with you but then we'd both be wrong. You can call it whatever you like but it ain't a links course.

 

[Mel Smooth]

I'd like to agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.

Pretty sure the people won’t be making false claims about the description of the course mate. Ganton is one of the best in the country, they don’t need to be making false claims around it’s designation just to attract a few more visitors.

 

[Orikoru]

I'd like to agree with you but then we'd both be wrong. You can call it whatever you like but it ain't a links course.

You are agreeing then. He said it's an inland links, not a links.

 

[chico]

Well no, they are inland links. Names don't have to be literal, they just evoke a certain idea. Someone has come up with the name 'inland links' for a course that feels like links because of the kind of turf and the design, but isn't truly links because it's not on the coast. You don't have gate-keep the word 'links' every time it comes up.

I will go back to an analogy I've used before - urinal cakes aren't actually made of cake, but it's just what they've called them for whatever reason. You don't see anyone debating why they're not actually cake.

Now I know why they taste terrible.

 

[Pin-seeker]