I'm happy to go along with George Peper and Malcolm Campbell's definition of true golf links (246 as of 2010) that they cribbed from the British Golf Museum, "A links is a stretch of land near the coast, on which the game is played, characterized by undulating terrain, often associated with dunes, infertile sandy soil and indigenous grasses as marram, sea lyme, and the fescues and bents which, when properly managed, produce the fine textured tight turf for which links are famed.”