How to play links golf: 5 top tips

Links golf is the purest form of the game.

To this day, playing links golf – in Scotland and Ireland – or at one of the prestigious venues for the Open Championship, is the dream golf tour. Many golfers travel from all over the world on a pilgrimage to the world’s best links golf courses.

If you’ve never battled strong sea breezes, or aimed down a fairway lined by gorse bushes you’ll probably feel you are playing a different game.

Here is quick quide to help you master some of the most important shots out on the links...

#1 - THE 'BUMP AND RUN' SHOT