The Queen's Hame suggests Royal progress and the environment heightens that impression. There is a queenly grace in the immediate landscape, and it may he that looking across the Deuk Dubs - the picturesque waterway spanned by the little rustic bridge - and taking in at a glance the beauty of the home stretch you may mark how favourably it compares with that of the King's Course.

There are still Scots who, cherishing the memory of Hotline Prince Charlie, are fain to drink a toast to "the King owre the water." An even happier sentiment to-day for golfers standing on the tee here might be expressed in a toast to the Queen's Hame and the King's Hame, the greens "owre the water"where the two great and beautiful courses end in perfect union near the Laichh Loch, the hame of majestic swans- Gleneagles 'birds royal"who in their wild migration appear to suddenly drop from the clouds in coming, and, without any warning in going, My to hames unknown.