What makes Authentic Links Land?

[Malcolm Mckinnon]

Thanks Rich! I ordered the Robert Price Book.


Mark, The golf at Elie is terrific but I felt that the land was quite different from Lundin/Leven.


I look forward to reading the geologist/geographist's point of view.

[Andrew Simpson]

Q, What makes Authentic Links Land?


A, It's in Scotland!


:-)

[David_Tepper]

From geoffshackelford.com today:

The grounds over which golf is played, is in Scotland called links, and is usually a particular sort of sandy soil in the neighborhood of the seashore, its surface mostly covered with short coarse grass, here and there interrupted by breaks, pits, and inequalities. These interruptions are necessary to impart interest in the game.
JAMES GRIERSON

[Ally Mcintosh]

Well he's wrong about the short, coarse grass.

[Thomas Dai]

Would it maybe be easier to define what isn't a links?
Atb

[Jon Wiggett]

Would it maybe be easier to define what isn't a links?
Atb

That's easy. Anything that is not links isn't links 

[David_Tepper]

"Nearly every self-respecting Scottish links possesses a burn."
BERNARD DARWIN