Links from the Road Podcast
1) What Is A Links Golf Course?
It is such a simple question, it just any course by the sea?During golf's earliest days, it was only links. Golf didn’t move inland for centuries, and even then, the best examples in Britain are on si...Show More
2) Episode 024: Silloth-on-Solway
As a teenager, author Sam Cooper used to go on holiday to this special little piece of the Cumbrian coast. Host Dan Murphy, editor of NCG Top 100s course rankings, spent his formative years planning g...Show More
3) Episode 023: Maryport
Author Sam Cooper makes one last stop on his journey up the Cumbrian coast before reaching Silloth. Even though host Dan Murphy, editor of NCG Top 100s course rankings, has been asking ‘are we there y...Show More
4) Episode 022: St Bees
Author Sam Cooper likes to think that Rowan Atkinson, AKA Mr Bean and Edmund Blackadder, would once have bestrode the fairways at St Bees when he attended the school that owns this quaint and remote c...Show More
5) Episode 021: Seascale
Author Sam Cooper does not seek to avoid the Sellafield nuclear power station that abuts the links at Seascale. In fact, he embraces it – or at least he did until the moment he found himself standing ...Show More
6) Episode 020: Silecroft
Author Sam Cooper and host Dan Murphy, editor of NCG Top 100s course rankings, almost bring each other to tears with a nostalgia-fuelled discussion about honesty boxes. They somehow sum up 9-holers li...Show More
7) Episode 019: Dunnerholme
Author Sam Cooper almost drove past this jaw-dropping 10-hole layout and had to consult a map to find his way to the simple clubhouse. He was certainly glad that he took the trouble once he was stridi...Show More
8) Episode 018: Furness
Author Sam Cooper drives to the end of what has been described as England’s longest cul-de-sac only to arrive in Barrow-in-Furness and discover that he still hasn’t reached the golf course. That is fo...Show More
9) Episode 017: Fleetwood
Author Sam Cooper makes a compelling case for this Lancashire links being the oldest golf club in England, albeit across multiple sites and with a hiatus in the early part of the 20th century. Host Da...Show More
10) Episode 016: St Annes Old Links
Author Sam Cooper delves into the life story of George Lowe, and speculates that his first thought when invited to create a course here was probably regarding his new workshop to manufacture clubs in ...Show More