The question about what truly makes a links course has long divided golfers. For many, it represents the game in its purest form. The Open, the game’s oldest major championship, is contested on a ...

Welcome to A Beginner’s Guide to Golf Course Design, where we’ll dig into the history, design and meaning of golf course architecture terms you’ve probably heard before but might not fully understand.

In the last fifty years of golf several players have emerged as legends on the links courses due to their British Open success based on controlling the ball in difficult conditions. Tom Watson is the ...

Longtime golf journalists John Hawkins and Mike Purkey, who co-host the Hawk & Purk podcast, also discuss and debate the game’s hottest issues in this weekly commentary. Do you favor Scottish or Irish ...

Golf purists often speak of “links courses,” a term that’s now resonating more widely with fans tuning in to the 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush. But what exactly makes a course a “links,” ...

There are two kinds of golf, links golf and all the others, and they’re as different from each other as a caddie is from a golf cart. I haven’t always been a links purist. Like most Americans, I grew ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The discussion of Cabot Links and its immense appeal is inseparable from links courses themselves, so it is worth noting that ...

What is it about links-style courses that has made them so popular with American golfers and golf designers? Is it because they remind us of golf’s Scottish seaside roots? Is it the blind shots? The ...

Play the game in the country that invented it, at Scotland's stunning Kingsbarns Golf Links. Take in the Pacific air and a lava rock landscape on the Hawaiian island of Lanai. Tee off with dramatic ...

Welcome to GOLF’s “Firsthand with a Fitter” series, where we dive into some of the most common issues golfers struggle with on the course, and with the help of True Spec Golf fitters explain how ...

A links golf course is the oldest and most traditional form of course, with origins in Scotland. Links courses are typically built on sandy coastal terrain, offering firmer playing surfaces than those ...