Furze. See Furze.

very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

Very thick grass and/or shrubs from which it may be impossible to play a shot. Gorse is common on European seaside courses.

A shrub primarily found on linkland type courses.

Shrubby yellow flowered legume species of the genus Ulex. May be invasive, may be of conservation value

Gorse (Ulex) comprises a genus of about 20 species of evergreen shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to western Europe and northwest Africa, with the majority of species in Iberia. Other common names for gorse include furse, whin and furze.