zagraniczniak:As far as the balance of links courses on WGT, I think it would be fabulous if we could gradually add in the whole (British) Open rota, which has a mix of links and non-links courses
Zag - I think (but will stand corrected if someone can point one out) that all the Open courses are links courses. Like you say, a links is a links because of it's terrain and its make-up... mainly due to being by the sea. As an aside, quite a few also have railway lines running either through them or alongside them. Kiawah is most definitely not a links course and plays nothing like a links - it is still typically target golf.
I don't know who keeps spreading the rumour that Royal Lytham & St Annes won't be on WGT, but I am pretty certain it will as it has been photographed, and WGT won't have wasted all that time and money to not finish the job.
It's a pity that WGT can't actually replicate the play on links courses; one has to use imagination as it is not target golf like most US courses. For links courses you can almost throw the yardage book away when the wind is blowing (which is 95% of the time). In the past I've driven a 4-iron to go 140 yards into wind, then later on the same course floated an 8-iron to go 194 yards downwind. That part is replicated to some extent, but what they can't do is the low pitch shots from 100yds, the bump-and-runs, putting from fairways, etc, etc - this is what makes links golf so unique.