It is a links-style course with few trees.

Many of Europe's top tournaments, including the British Open, are played on more links-style courses, with heather bordering the fairways and windier conditions.

The links-style courses differ drastically from what most players, particularly Americans, usually see.

It is a links-style course with many grass bunkers and water hazards on 16 holes.

Mike Keiser, the owner of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, said he searched the East Coast for years for property on which to build the wild, links-style course he envisioned.

Battle Creek is a links-style course with a course rating of 75.3 from the championship tees and 73.5 from the Mens tees, with more than 80 bunkers and 8 ponds strategically placed to capture that occasional errant tee shot.

In 2012 the event was held at Verdura Golf & Spa Resort on a links-style course running up to the coastline.

Golfers who prefer links-style courses with lots of hills and hummocks wont find many courses here, she added.

The event is set for Nov. 20-23 at Fancourt, a links-style course on South Africa's southwestern coast.

While the tall grass at Indianwood Golf and Country Club's links-style course continued to impede most golfers in the 44th United States Women's Open championship, Betsy King kept playing cautiously to avoid that e wheatlike rough.