LINKS AND COURSE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 August 1927, Page 10

LINKS AND COURSE.

PLACE WHERE GOLP SHOULD BE PLAYED. A reader asks the definition of the term links in golf (says the “Referee”). tanks and course are used to designate where golf is played, but the words have a different meaning. There are no golf links in Australia, using the word links in its correct sense. “Links” are the open downs or heath on which golf is played. “Course ’ is tba-t portion of the links on which the game ought to be played, generally bounded on either side by rough ground or other hazard. Sir Walter Simpson, in “The Art of Golf,” says that the grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren, sandy soil from which the sea has retired in recent geological times. In their natural state links are covered with long, rank benty grass and gorse. These get worn away by sheep and golfers,, and short, springy, sandy turf is disclosed. The part of the links thus worn is the course. He goes on to refer to the course thereafter. On the coast of England the links are situated and divided into numerous golf courses. This is the meaning of the tenn links, which i 3 obviously misapplied unless usage makes the term links also moan a course.