Links Golf Love

It’s been quite awhile since I last posted here on Links Life Golf. And while I never lost my passion for the game I did put writing about it way down on my To-Do List. John Lennon wrote “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making plans” and I could use that as an excuse. After all, life has been happening for sure but as life has offered me some challenges and plenty of opportunities my lack of posting wasn’t really caused by any of them. It was by choice, my choice.

You see my view of golf and most of the things that go with it has evolved. And maybe the fact that I gotten older has a little to do with it but I think I know the culprit and I am addicted to it. No, it’s no drug or whisky (my family may dispute that one) but it’s just as strong an addiction: Links Golf.

Yes, links golf. The way the game was first played on the strips of dunes-land on the Scottish coast. Where the land was too poor for anything but grazing and knocking a stone back and forth. My recent trips to Scotland have ruined me for American Golf.

Sure, I still tune in to the PGA and LPGA tours and scour the web for news but the game played here by both professional and recreational golfers is so very different. Links Golf has ruined me for American style golf. Oh, understand that I won’t be giving up the green, soft, golf cart loving layouts here in the states. If I want to play at all I have no choice. But my mind and heart will always be drifting back to the brown, crunchy links of Scotland.

I’ve been lucky enough to play golf in Scotland three of the last four years. And the excursions with my brothers have changed my life. Changed it so dramatically that it seems I can’t go a year without setting foot on true links-land. I am busy planning my next trip, it’s the only way I can bear this winter.

So I’ll do my best to get Links Life Golf back up and current and interesting once again and maybe a new focus on Links Golf. In the mean time I’ll have to tough it out with online searches and books on links golf. It’s a hard addiction to kick.

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Check out this flyover of Strathlene Golf Club which sits on the Moray Coast in Scotland. It’s one of the better produced videos and it certainly looks like a hidden gem. It’s on my list for my next trip. It can’t come soon enough.