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The Links Effect - Royal Liverpool Golf Club Magazine, 2023-24

The Links Effect - Royal Liverpool Golf Club Magazine, 2023-24

This piece was published in the Royal Liverpool Golf Club Magazine, 2023-24. You can view it online here.    How vanlife changed Sam's life. By Mark Gorton.  As Tiger Woods...
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Clubs Do Travel, Don't They? - Links Diary No.4

Clubs Do Travel, Don't They? - Links Diary No.4

Words by Kenny Pallas Photography by Graeme McCubbin   Have you ever felt the urge to pack everything in and just play golf instead? Whilst the last couple of years...
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019/225 - Dunnerholme Golf Club

019/225 - Dunnerholme Golf Club

I should have pulled over and checked there and then, but carried on to our overnight stop an hour up the coast. Well, better late than never - I did finally check and promptly turned the van around to see what was at Dunnerholme.
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018/225 - Furness Golf Club

018/225 - Furness Golf Club

The southern Lake District isn't a typical links destination. Driving through the heavily industrial Barrow-in-Furness, we wondered if we might have taken a wrong turn. However, crossing the Jubilee Bridge onto Walney Island is a fitting location for the links.
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005/225 - West Lancashire Golf Club

005/225 - West Lancashire Golf Club

The links itself is a stern test. Often overlooked in favour of its better known neighbours, West Lancs is a classy links. Rumpled land between the sea and a railway track - a tried and tested formula for great golf.
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004/225 - The Warren (Municipal) Golf Course

004/225 - The Warren (Municipal) Golf Course

This 9 hole municipal course is undoubtedly a links, and therefore an oversight from Campbell and Peper's book 'True Links'. There are a few courses in their list I disagree with - both inclusions and exclusions - and I'm looking forward to stimulating some serious debate when I publish my list at the end of the tour! 
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003/225 - Wallasey Golf Club

003/225 - Wallasey Golf Club

The dunes at Wallasey are rare in England. Only courses like Saunton, Birkdale and a handful of other can boast of such grand golfing land. Under the expert hand of John McLoughlin and my colleagues at Clayton, DeVries and Pont, I am certain it'll start climbing the ranking lists. It has masses of potential and hopefully we can make the most of it.
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002/225 - Leasowe Golf Club

002/225 - Leasowe Golf Club

Leasowe Golf Club was formed in 1891, the first Captain being a gentlemen called John Ball Jr. This is not an insignificant fact, as at the time of the club's inauguration, he happened to be defending Champion Golfer of the Year.
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