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Links Golf Club

Course Information
Club Type: Public
Founded:1981
Architect:Fredrick W. Hawtree
General Information
Address: 100 Majestic Way
Marlton, NJ  08053
Phone:(856) 983-2000
Fax:(856) 983-2917
Website:www.thelinksgc.com
Email:contact@thelinksgc.com
Club Contacts
  Golf Professional:   Mark Kriews   (609) 298-3322 
  General Manager:   Mark Kriews   (609) 298-3322 
  Superintendent:   Brian Dunn   (856) 983-9778 
Club Events
2009 May 11  GAP Amateur Championship Qualifier   
2009 Aug 31  GAP USGA Mid-Amateur Qualifier   
2005 Apr 26  GAP Middle-Amateur Championship Qualifier   

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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

I/II TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.2 124  35.9  127 71.1 126 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444345534364455344343672
 Yards 315333372188322483509162388307237134349151417241841116439132756347
 HCP 1517139113175 81014121624186  
IV TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  31.0 112  33.5  118 64.5 115 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444335534354455344343671
 Yards 22423831411022631833686261211329530342845212636036312529827504863
 HCP 1517139113175 81014121624186  
III/IV TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  31.7 113  33.6  119 65.3 116 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444335534354455344343671
 Yards 29723831117822642033686261235329530343345212636636312529827615114
 HCP 1517139113175 81014121624186  
I TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.3 127  36.4  130 71.7 129 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444345534364455344343672
 Yards 315333372197339483535178388314040034349155717243742816439133836523
 HCP 1517139113175 81014121624186  
II TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.9 123  35.6  125 70.5 124 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444345534364455344343672
 Yards 307325356188322455509162381300537132847051415741841114737331896194
 HCP 1517139113175 81014121624186  
III TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.4 117  33.8  118 67.2 118 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444345534364455344343672
 Yards 297318311178279420414137322267630131843346013336636613230328125488
 HCP 1517139113175 81014121624186  
II/III TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.9 119  34.6  122 68.5 121 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444345534364455344343672
 Yards 307325311178322455414162322279637132843351415736636614730329855781
 HCP 1517139113175 81014121624186  
History
King’s Grant, a Marlton, New Jersey, housing community, is the setting for The Links Golf Club. The golf course was first played in 1976, and for the next six or seven years remained open to the public. In 1981 Anthony DeSimone, a local businessman, acquired the course and converted it into a private facility. He served as the club’s first president. The other officers at that time were Michael Orlando, vice president, and the founder’s wife, Mary Louise De Simone, secretary. When Mr. De Simone died, in 1987, Mrs. De Simone succeeded him as president of the club until her passing in 2002.
In founding The Links Golf Club, Tony DeSimone had several very specific ideas. Golf would be the only sport— no swimming, no tennis, no skeet or trap shooting, nothing but the royal and ancient game itself. The membership would be small, a limit of 230. And that would be the total number of players. He was bent on creating an uncrowded atmosphere for the game in which a member could drop into his or her club (women were—and are—as welcome to join as men) at any time, go straight to the 1st tee, and hit off. (This circumstance is perhaps the last great luxury in golf.) The majority of the club’s members are from what might be called the Cherry Hill/Haddonfield area.
The course that Tony DeSimone acquired is routed over some 160 acres of very gently rolling meadows and woodlands. Oak, maple, sweet gum, and pine are the principal species of trees framing most of the holes. England’s Frederick W. Hawtree designed the eighteen.
The only other American course by this outstanding English golf architect belongs to North Carolina’s Mount Mitchell Golf Club. But throughout the British Isles and on the European continent he was one of the most respected figures in golf course architecture during the second half of this century, designing or remodeling, in partnership with his father and son, more than 300 courses throughout the world, including Royal Birkdale, near Liverpool, where the British Open is played periodically
At the Links Club, Hawtree’s practice of letting the site dictate the character of the course can be readily observed. There is nothing forced or artificial about the holes, which, meandering through the trees, fall with a becoming naturalness on the land. Fairways here incline to be narrow, greens to be thoughtfully bunkered. The course measures just over 6,200 yards from the blue tees, 5,936 yards from the men’s regular markers, 5,350 yards from the ladies’ tees. Par is 70. Power is obviously not a prerequisite, but precision just as obviously is.
A reflection of Tony DeSimone’s sensitivity to environmental considerations is the fact that the Links is an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Club.

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