Machrihanish Golf Club

Machrihanish Golf Club

Aus dem Archiv - Oktober 2005 - Canon Powershot G6

"Gott hatte wohl Golf im Sinn als er diese Landschaft erschuf."

Machrihanish is recognised worldwide as having one of the greatest links courses in the UK and the world. The opening hole looking out over Machrihanish Bay and to the undulating landscape ahead.

http://www.machrihanish.org.uk/golf.php
In the recent book "To The Linksland," author Michael Bamberger with native help, makes the translation, "The Almichty maun hae had gowf in his e'e when he made the place." Whatever, the course has always been admired for occupying charming and particularly romantic linksland made more beautiful by its enigmatic isolation - as spectacular linksland always is.

http://www.scotlandgolftours.org/mgc.htm
A traditional links course will have many - perhaps all - of the following features:

• The course is built along the seaside;
• The soil is sandy and drains easily;
• The course is laid out naturally, so that unusual bumps and slopes in the fairways and greens remain, rather than being smoothed over;
• The rough features natural seaside grasses;
• Bunkers are numerous, and while they range from very small to very large, are typically deep (to keep the seaside breezes from blowing the sand away)
• Fairways are rarely (if ever) watered - except by nature - and play firm and fast;
• Links courses usually have few if any trees;
• The course routes out and back. The No. 1 hole begins at the clubhouse and the front nine plays straight out so that No. 9 is farthest hole from the clubhouse; the direction turns back in at No. 10 and the course ends with No. 18 back at the clubhouse.

http://golf.about.com/cs/golfterms/g/bldef_links.htm