What is meant by a LINKS golf course. What is the difference compared with a normal course?
I take all of that back, I was wrong, One of the other answerers got it right. This is what Wikipedia has to say: A links golf course, sometimes referred to as a seaside links, is the oldest style of golf course, first developed in Scotland. The word comes from the Scots language and refers to an area of coastal sand dunes, and sometimes to open parkland. It also retains this more general meaning in the Scottish English dialect. It can be treated as singular even though it has an “s” at the end, and occurs in place names that precede the development of golf, for example Lundin Links, Fife. Many links – though not all – are located in coastal areas, on sandy soil, often amid dunes, with few water hazards and few if any trees. This reflects both the nature of the scenery where the sport happened to originate, and the fact that only limited resources were available to golf course architects at the time, and any earth moving had to be done by hand, so it was kept to a minimum. At Bruntsfie
