Collection
Links Golf Destinations
True links terrain: sandy coastal soil, firm turf, wind and ground game golf.
Links is a soil and terrain description, not a synonym for coastal. The destinations in this collection sit on sandy links land where the ball runs, the wind is part of the design, and approach play is often along the ground rather than through the air. Expect walking golf, caddies rather than carts at many clubs, and conditions that change hour to hour. If you have only played parkland golf, the guides attached explain how to adjust before the first tee.
Destinations
- AberdeenshireScotlandBig dune links north of the Granite City, still under-travelled compared with Fife.
- Biarritz and the Basque CoastFranceThe birthplace of French golf, where Atlantic links meets Basque food culture.
- Cape BretonCanadaThe reason golfers fly to Nova Scotia: two of the best modern links in North America.
- Causeway CoastNorthern IrelandAn Open Championship coastline with four strong links inside twenty miles.
- Celtic CoastWalesA Ryder Cup venue and a top-ten links inside an hour of each other.
- County ClareIrelandWest coast links country with the Cliffs of Moher as the backdrop.
- Da NangVietnamThe best new golf coastline in Asia, with five strong courses in thirty miles.
- Dublin CoastIrelandChampionship links within thirty minutes of a capital city.
- East LothianScotlandThe densest run of quality links in the world, twenty minutes east of Edinburgh.
- Kent Golf CoastEnglandEngland's Open Championship links corner, ninety minutes from London.
- Kiawah IslandUnited StatesA PGA Championship venue on a barrier island with four more resort courses behind it.
- KohlerUnited StatesRyder Cup and PGA Championship golf on the shore of Lake Michigan.
- KwaZulu-Natal CoastSouth AfricaWarm-water coastline with one of the world's great old championship courses.
- Lancashire Golf CoastEnglandThe densest championship links strip in England, running from Liverpool to Lytham.
- Lisbon CoastPortugalWindswept coastal golf thirty minutes from a great European city.
- North Wales CoastWalesClifftop and dunes golf under Snowdonia, and almost no crowds.
- Porto and the Silver CoastPortugalClifftop links north of Lisbon, still priced below the Algarve.
- Scottish HighlandsScotlandA long, quiet drive north that ends at one of the greatest links on earth.
- Skåne CoastSwedenTrue links golf on Sweden's southern tip, forty minutes from Copenhagen.
- Sligo and DonegalIrelandThe quietest great links stretch in Ireland, and the best value.
- TasmaniaAustraliaRaw coastal links at the bottom of the world, and worth the flights.
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