Whats your favourite type

[needmoreclub]

Heathland for me.
Really don't get Links - it looks to me like chasing a ball around a desolate landscape...... Not appealing at all.

I'm with you on this one Imurg, don't see the attraction of hitting a drive well only to see it hit a mound (or a dead sheep that's been buried) to quote a well known and disliked yank, and bounce off into a gorse bush or worse still a 3 foot wide 6 foot deep bunker that you might have to spend a night in, and then there's the wind to contend with. Not my cup of tea, but certainly lets you play all year round as it drains real quick.

 

[Toad]

I do enjoy the odd round on a links but wuld not want to play one every week, to windy for my liking.
My course is a heathland/woodland combination and I enjoy every visit there, so guess where my vote went

 

[RichardC]

If I had to choose one it would be Heathland.
Of the limited amount of courses I have played they are far and away the nicest and most enjoyable.

 

[Captainron]

Links all day long. I would learn alot about the game.

 

[DaveM]

Don't think I have played a Heath land course, so can't say on that one. Cousin plays at St Ann's old links, so played that a bit, ok but to barren for me. My home course is Park land. So that got my vote. But it has to be 100 yrs old or so. Nice and mature then.

 

[garyinderry]

i usually play 3 links courses during the summer. i do enjoy the challenge and look forward to seeing what i can do this year with my improved game.

 

[steviep]

I've gone for parkland. Nothing better on a summers evening with the sun setting behind the trees leaving long shadows across the course.

 

[bladeplayer]

Went for parkland , dont & never have got the appeal of Links , maybe because i dont get much chance to play it .. or im just not good enough to play it ..

 

[JustOne]

I went for American as I'd play most of the PGA tour courses every day of my life given the chance!

I'd have chosen parkland otherwise but UK courses that are any good are few and far between, they are normally more like forest and bracken than parkland :angry:

 

[Val]

Links however I do enjoy playing golf in America, lots of sand and water, massive greens where contours are tough to read and beer gets brought to your buggy by a dolly bird

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I voted links as I think it offers the purest test of golf. Just a shame I live so far away from a links course. Heathland would come a close second and there are a few of those round my way and most place a premium on driving to avoid the trees and heather which isn't a forte of mine so I've been known to struggle on this type of course

 

[stevek1969]

Links all the time ,not a lover of the American type target golf , no fun in that to be honest

 

[joma1108]

I have said an american type course, but a good one not monster long, one that makes you think about your shots, i play links and parkland regularly so always enjoy the american type courses (but not the 5 hour rounds, speed up people)

 

[richart]

Judging by the replies, links golf is something you either love or hate. Have those that don't like links golf actually played much, as I seem to remember a lot of top American Pros's hating it when they first played but after a while loving it. Bobby Jones and Jack Nicklaus spring to mind, and I am not sure Tom Watson liked it the first time he played, even though he won the Open at Carnoustie in 1975.

If I had just one course to play, it would be the Old at St Andrews. GCD you are a lucky man !!!

 

[Imurg]

Judging by the replies, links golf is something you either love or hate. Have those that don't like links golf actually played much,

Haven't played links and to be honest I've not seen much to persuade me to.
Obviously there's the History of the Old Course and similar but I'd only play them to say I'd played them...

 

[richart]

Haven't played links and to be honest I've not seen much to persuade me to.
Obviously there's the History of the Old Course and similar but I'd only play them to say I'd played them...

How do you know you will not love links golf if you don't actually try it Ian ? Can so many top golfers be wrong about links golf ? Just try it at least once on a top course and then tell me you don't fancy playing again.

 

[Hobbit]

Voted Links because its like playing a different course every day, and sometimes a different course as the tide changes and the breeze with it.

Parkland for looks but I get bored with, "it was an 8 iron yesterday, and an 8 iron today and an 8 iron tomorrow" sort of course.

 

[ADB]

Links for me too, an annual pilgrimage to the Kent coast is my highlight of the year!

 

[anotherdouble]

I love links golf. Although living by the sea on the south coast there are not many good links down here.

 

[bladeplayer]

I voted links as I think it offers the purest test of golf.

Someone please explain the defination homer just used & i often hear relating to Links "purest test of golf"
ive played links a few times & i dont understand this . alot of links golf are knock down or running shots , am i correct in sayin this ? whats pure about that when you are relying on bounces hops etc to get the ball where you aimed .. ok some will say thats the challange & boy is it a challange but at our level could we ever be good enough to judge this ... this is a genuine question asked by someone who doesnt play or understand links golf not a critisism as anytime i have played it i have enjoyed it , i just wouldnt want to play it every week as in my opinion even very well hit shots are affected by the undulations of the fairways etc..