The Het Girdle is one of the "wee" ones and one of the "kittle" ones. The tee with its triple projections in echelon form has behind it the White Water, a little loch with reeds swaying in the wind and bright with the white fleecy flower of the Cotton Grass. It may he that you will raise a lone heron from the banks or startle a covey of wild duck or other water fowl from the shelter of the reeds. The plan of this hole makes an interesting study. The length is hut 145 yards. It can he done in two a most encouraging possibility when we take into account the allowance of three, which Braid gives. You drive across a depression on to a rising plateau that is a sort of pocket edition of Table Mountain, but which is actually only 5 feet above the level of the tee. It is the low intervening ground which gives it the appearance of greater altitude. The green is expansive approximately 4S yards long by 25 yards wide and yet your ball has a tantalising way of missing it at times and at other times, having reached it, of occasionally rolling off. This is due to the configuration of the surrounding ground and the natural timidity that may be created by the sight of water hazards on either side. On the left hand there is the Devil's Dip, and on the right the Deep Sea, so that you are between the devil and the deep sea "right enough. Hut all that is required is an accurate iron or mashie shot, which, however, you must play courageously, for over and above these hazards there is trouble on the slopes all round, and special danger awaits a shot ever so slightly pulled, Get on the green, by hook or by crook, remembering that the rising inclination retards an overstrong effort. A sense of keen satisfaction remains with all who play this hole as it can be played. While admittedly tricky, it is at once attractive and distracting and gives the expert, or he who tain would so be classed, every opportunity of gaining distinction.

• Met Girdle • 5TH Hole • 145 yards.