In all the keenest games the hole before the last is perhaps the real test of accurate and well matched golf. It is frequently on the seventeenth that the game is lost and won. And it is a no less interesting hole when the lux-is being decided. The Warslin Lea is somewhat of a dog-leg to he played carefully by most when there is much at stake. How should it be played ? Drive hugging the Hielan' Line on the left, or out into the middle of the fine fairway which strange as it may appear Nature has made the narrowest on the course, and which happy circumstance was taken full advantage of in the scheming of the course. It is imperative that players should "keep on the carpet." A first shot deflected too much to the left or to the right will not be favourably placed tor the second. Although even minute examination of the plan may not clearly convey the fact, a slight bend and the height of the Hielan' Line at the narrow neck about the middle of the fairway hide the green from the tee. On the other hand a ball properly placed by a skilful drive will enable the player to obtain a clear view of the pin for the second shot. A good deck, or iron shot, for the second should, in Braid's opinion, reach the green, which is 365 yards from the tee and about 13 feet above it. Anything short in distance is almost certain to find a bunker. Hut opinions vary as to the best play of this fine hole. The problem in approaching the green is whether to take advantage of the Hielan' Line on the left, and. running the risk of finding the rough, get the roll on to the green, or play straight for the green risking a short shot landing your ball in one of the bunkers which so effectually guard it. Braid's advice to go "all out" for the clean straight second shot on to the green, being the professional view, must be regarded with full respect. It admits of no finesse if "the Colonel " is to be matched, because you are expected to hole out with two putts at the most. It has been said that the Warslin' Lea is the finest seventeenth hole of its kind on any golf course. The statement is a hold one, but may be true because many of the great golfers have endorsed it.

• CLENEAGLES • Kings Course. • King's Hame. 18TH Hole • 450 yards.