The Open venue in July drives the year's pilgrimage traffic to whichever coast is hosting. The Old Course daily ballot is a fixed ritual rather than an event.

The winter sun destinations peak around the February half-term and the new year. Links as distinct from parkland, the ballot, a tee time, the society trip, playing off, handicap index, a caddie versus a trolley, the turn, the medal, buggy policy, a good walk, the honour.

The links calendar dies from November to March, but the community does not. Winter golf travel to the Algarve, southern Spain, Morocco, and the Gulf is a genuine second season running November to March, and it is a different trip with different economics.

May, June, and September for the links coast, because that is when the weather is plausible and the courses are in condition. September is the connoisseur's month and books hardest.

The longest in the sporting half of the catalog.