What other types of coursesother links?

[mont86]

I hear people say this or that is a links course. What other types are there?

Thanks for the info.

[aftford]

Re: What other types of coursesother links?

Hi pal.
inland courses are generally known as parkland cousres. you can also have inland link style couses (very few trees , undulating fairways and lots of high rough ).

cheers

[bill reed]

Re: What other types of coursesother links?

mont86
think the main difrence is how close links are to the sea and that the winds bring in all that salt air, most links have very little protection ie no trees to keep wind off and they are built on a sand base, the grass feels diffrent, more spongy and rought is high but more sparce but theres lots of gorse bushes, inland tend to have tree cover and grass is more lush and has a bigger blabe to links courses, and inland courses dont drain like links and have a firmer base and you seem to take a deeper diviot in inland courses. i am very lucky here in east lothian with so many wounderful links courses, from the oldest in the world = musselburgh, to muirfield, noth berwick and dunbar and the three at gullane, and a few more great courses here too. well worth a trip up here if you want to try links golf.
hope this help a bit
bill

[mont86]

Re: What other types of coursesother links?

I live in the upper Mid-west, so I qualify for the inland.
Some of the course around here are wide open and others are lined with trees. Is that what you are talking about. The quality of courses are different aswell.

[bill reed]

Re: What other types of coursesother links?

mont86
it's more to do with the sea and the wind that comes off the sea. the salt in the spray and in the air, grass has to be able to live in the salty condisions. bunkers have to be deep so wind dont blow the sand out. inland can have shallow bunker without lips but links cant as it would have no sand in it some days, its a diffrent grass the grows on the fairways and green and it putts diffrent too. if you try a links course you see it diffrance in the grass right away and its tighter of the fairways too i think. the wind blows every time the tide comes in in links courses. links in uk are strips of land between the sea and the farm land, it was the waste land that farmers could not grow crops on because off the salt in the sandy soil
bill.

[jockyburns]

Re: What other types of coursesother links?

Hi Bill, Do you play on Musselburgh at the race course or is it Royal Musselburgh in Prestonpans.? I ask because I used to play at Royal Musselburgh years ago. My late uncle was club captain there years ago. Next time your there check out the boards with captains on them and find David Middlemass. That was my uncle, great scratch player and taught me everything I've forgotten over the years.

[bill reed]

Re: What other types of coursesother links?

yes i play both. i have a look next time i play the royal. my friends take turns at there course, one is a member at the royal and one at dunbar and other is haddington and me at the old couse.