Writer and designer Pat Ruddy tells us that a true links course is several golf courses. On the links, golf has more to do with raw Nature. This is a person's opportunity to step back into time, when humans first began to walk this planet. The best linksland holes are presented not just as great tests of physical skill and human spirit, but also as microlandscapes, with the player walking into one picture postcard after another, gasping at the splendor of it all, wondering how anything could be more perfect. On a links course, one looks back and sees the wonderland that one has just left.
Time is suspended.
A troubled world has vanished. Don't spoil it by resisting. Get out of that worrying, aching, snarling animal body that controls too much of your life. Forget dinner, forget the mobile phone, forget the stock market, forget the family .Get into the links and let it get into you. That, my friend, is golf.