Once again a short hole - the Deil's Creel - ensconced in heather where grouse are wont to gather and where the golfer may feel like grasping the gun rather than the golf club when he raises a covey as he frequently does in the season. To reach the tee you turn sharply at right angles to the North, and walking across the little Pass o' Pinkie you have a more decided feeling that you are now on the homeward trek. The Deil's Creel hazards. as the plan shows, are many. There is heathery rough in front of the tee and heathery bunkers in the middle of the fairway, but it is the formidable bunkers near the green that impress you. The player who doubts his ability to reach the green 10 feet above the level of the tee -with his tee shot is best advised to make sure of "carrying" the two bunkers in the middle of the fairway, and play short where it will be comparatively easy to pitch on to the green and cheat the bunkers guarding it. Hut "take heed to yourself for the Devil is unchained" Braid, however, without arty sense of foreboding, simply demands a good iron shot from the tec with the slightest cut or pull according to the position of the hole, that being all that is necessary to gain tor you position on the green for two putts and a bogey three. There is a Scots proverb that "the Deil is kindly to his ain." It you do well at this hole there may be deep reasons.