At its very beginning in Scotland, or the Netherlands, or wherever you most like to believe it began, golf was played over links courses - the rumpled, sandy, and otherwise less valuable land that was said effectively to link more arable and fertile farmland with the sea. As the sport took time to take over the world, many of its most famous and indeed greatest links are where the game began, in the UK & Ireland.
Now, though, there are also plenty of fine examples all over the world, from way up in northern Europe as far as the base of the southern hemisphere. Not only that, but we have modern variations on the traditional theme - courses which take the values and design principles of our earliest links courses but add a modern twist and flair.
