Chain segments

Usage examples of links.

A local golf links fulfilled the same purpose for Scots, and still does in many places.

The reader will learn a lot about links golf in Dornoch, and gain plenty of knowledge about the intoxicating Scottish Highlands and their haunting history.

I did not go directly to the spot, however, but turned aside into the bushes, so as to come out on the links some hundred yards or so farther to the right.

If we go round to the left here, we can take a shortcut across the golf links which will bring us to the back of the Villa Genevieve much more quickly.

The similarity of the two stories links the two cases together inevitably.

Our conversations about the swing and other subjects - particularly golf on the Scottish links that I enjoy so much -continued later when we met during the 1997 Ryder Cup at the Valderrama Golf Club in Spain.

Dornoch is dominated by the spire of a thirteenth-century cathedral, the links a five-minute walk from there, and the Dornoch Firth that empties into the North Sea.

Donald Ross was born in Dornoch, and before he became America's most famous golf-course architect in the first half of the twentieth century he walked its links regularly, worked and golfed there, and absorbed its spirit as if by osmosis.

Traveling northwest for a while, the bus climbed into the hills above and crossed the firth inland at Bonar Bridge before turning east and making for the village with the rumpled, golden links awaiting me.

It remained in my mind's eye a links in an empty, desolate region to the north, and came to appeal to me for those reasons.

Golf as we know it began on links courses that connected the sea to, quite often, a village or town.

The links was to a resident what a basketball court is to a kid growing up in New York or Los Angeles, or a natural ice rink was to me growing up in Toronto.

During my visit, I played the Brora Golf Club, a rugged links up the coast from Dornoch.

Together, in the summer of 2000, we would venture across the ocean to Scotland, and then north to the links of Dornoch.

I would golf at Royal Dornoch, and presumably life would flow from there - emanations from the links, because of it, and through it.