Amazon.com Review
Robert Hunter partnered with the legendary designer Alistair McKenzie on such classic courses as Cypress Point.
The Links, first published in 1926, is his elegantly written paean to golf course design, and it remains a Fort Knox of golfing knowledge. Hunter explains and extols the glories of a good golf course, what makes that course good, the thinking that goes into individual holes to make them interesting, and, in the end, the wisdom that puts all of it together to create a fair test for the golfer. Understanding the hows and whys of the demonic challenges that designers subtly and not so subtly integrate into their layouts will certainly save an observant golfer a stroke or two. And high-handicappers who have heretofore communed with the game primarily through their ignorance can now get on the long cart path to enlightenment.
--Jeff Silverman
From the Inside Flap
English and American opinion of
The LinksFrom the leading English authority
A. MACKENZIE, author of Golf Architecture, and the designer of over five hundred golf courses in the British islands, writes: “I have read The Links with the greatest interest. Mr. Hunter is familiar with all the great courses in the world and he has written a most entertaining book, which I am sure every golfer will read with profit. I do not hesitate to say that it is the classic of the subject.”
From an American champion
WALTER J. TRAVIS writes: “I have read your manuscript with the liveliest interest and pleasure, and I heartily congratulate you on the production of such a fine piece of work, unique of its kind.”
THE LINKS
By Robert Hunter
With 49 full-page illustrations and 10 plates of plans and maps
Mr. Hunter has gathered all the undying charm and glory of golf into The Links, something altogether new in books on golf, that communicates everywhere the secret and contagious charm of the game. It explains fully why one course or an individual hole is dramatic and colorful to play, and shows how the insipid and uninspiring may be eliminated or improved. Golf architect and its relation to good play is an important and valuable feature, and The Links will be in that respect indispensable to any one undertaking to construct or change a golf course. But rarely has a book contained so much of general golf wisdom, of its true spirit, so much that will delight every golfer whether his handicap be high or low. The long list of full-page illustrations show unexcelled views of noted holes on English, Scotch, and American courses, and are quite as instructive as the text. Every golfer will find aid and inspiration in the suggestions of Mr. Hunter’s book and will be sure to find it a touchstone to greater zest and joy in the game.
