Whats your favourite type

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What is your favourite type of course?

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Imurg said:
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...
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richart said:
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.
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That's the thing Rich - I just don't fancy even trying it if I'm honest
Just doesn't appeal to me at all......
 
My home course is a links and if you asked me this question a few years ago i would have said Parklands, but now my favorites are links, I think they have a bit more soul to them
 
Farneyman said:
Links all day long. I think if you can handle links golf the other types are easier to adapt to. Dont think this is so if you play all parkland,heath then try links.
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I think you knocked it on the head there buddy. Links golf tests all parts of your game regularly, heathland and parkland courses don't.
 
bladeplayer said:
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..
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Bill in my opinion you are not only at the mercy of the elements and there is always a wind to factor in of some description but the layout is a test too. Yes you will get unfavourable bounces and hanging lies but it is the hardest test of course management you can get. You really have to visualise hpw the ball will react, where to land it and how to flight it. Avoiding the bunkers is a huge priority too. It simply challenges not only your playing skills but your mental ones too.

Heathland, especially in the dry summer conditions comes a very close second and lot of the skills required for links golf are transferrable to that type of course such as the pitch and run, the need to plot your way and not just blast driver etc.
 
I voted Links but need to try more of all of them to give a defintive answer. I like the variety of land and undulations you get on parkland, plus trees are good as obstacles. Bunkers best on Links as missing them should be the priority and getting out should be the challenge, whereas parkland bunkers are too easy hitting a 7 iron out is not too much of a hazard/penalty. Only heathland I play is Ladybank which is way too flat but good shape. I also hate flat greens as just no putting challenge so there should be some great sculpted greens with a few flat ones with a slope in them.

Lundin Links perhaps give a bit of everything I like in a course. Highly recommended.
 
Links nudges it over Heathland for me. And this is having just returned from Swinley Forest!

You can play Links golf twice a day for a month and the conditions will be different every time! Don't believe in this 'purest form' guff - though hard and uneven fairways can generate a wider set of tests even for supposed 'down the middle' golfers.

BTW. Braid needed to add 2 or 3 parkland style holes to Lundin when it split from Leven. Still a joy to play but Leven has a 'purer' links feel.
 
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Come on....it's got to be links.
then Heathland, then all the others with Parkland last.

Could be something with an overdose of Parkland courses over the years.
 
Heathland for me, but I do like links golf quite a lot. Don't think I could do links every day though, would wear me down eventually.
 
Love links but get too few chances to play them
Parkland can cover a multitude of sins, the better are very good but I've seen more bad parkland than anything else
so Heathland
 
I've gone parkland. most of the courses around me are parkland, so its what I know. The challenge of a links is good as a treat, but really wouldn't like to play links week in week out
 
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