What's a links course?
A links course must be beside the sea and unable to be cultivated, with sheep grazing and gorse growing.
Weather must be windy, cold and wet. Fiendish and often invisible pot bunkers, occasionally equipped with ladders to provide access to their depths, populate the fairways.
Fairway terrain should be unpredictably bumpy, hilly and entirely unsuited for target golf. Rough is thick grass and heather, which clutch the ball tenaciously so that the use of a flailing sand wedge is required.
-- From "Alliss' 19th Hole" by Peter Alliss (Da Capo Press)
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