4. Use links playing characteristics if possible

"Inland golf can never be quite equal in merit to that played on seaside links, but it can be a very good second best.... as regards the construction of artificial hollows, mounds and bunkers, the model should be the natural sand dune country which is found near the sea."

Harry S. Colt “Some Essays on Golf-course Architecture” 1920

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“On many British Championship links courses there are a succession of hillocks and hollows on the immediate approach to the greens. These hillocks and hollows make it essential to play a running up approach to the greens. A golf course which merely caters for an everlasting pitch at every hole can never be entirely satisfactory. Any player under a sixteen handicap can play a pitch shot, but few of even the best players can play a run up shot".

Dr. Alister MacKenzie “The Spirit of St.Andrews” 1932