WHILE it is true that to all good golfers "the play's the thing" rather than the plan, it is believed that a plan of the Gleneagles Golf Course may prove to he of interest. A plan is therefore appended - at the end of the hook in the hope that by study it intending golfers may he rewarded at least by some addition to the pleasure of the anticipation of playing the game. The plan is such as to show clearly the relative positions of the tees, the greens, and the bunkers, and other features of the Courses, and it also gives some idea of the configuratiin of the fairways and the adjoining ground. The complete separation of the King's Course from the Queen's Course by the deep ravines and the little loch which lies between them - the Heuch o' Dule, the I.ancly Dell and Loch-an-Eerie is specially noticeable. bach of the Courses is in a different "country from the other, although, as will be observed, both begin in the precincts of the Club-House and end together in the closest proximity thereto in the happily named greens, the King's Hame and the Queen's Hame, which are practically one and the same. Examination of the plan also conveys an idea of the extraordinary amphitheatrical character of the surroundings of many of the greens and fairways. Both being in the natural hollows among the ridges are completely isolated and the ridges present particularly tine fields of view to spectators of the play.

The splendid golfing characteristics and the tine natural features of the place can be fully appreciated only by inspection on the spot, but examination of the plan and of the place names may serve to emphasise the "braid Scots quaintness of both, and the pleasing phantasy of "Wee Scotland," which Bailie Nicol Jarvie seeks to convex' to Mattie, his bonnie servant lass, as they cross the Hielan Line - "fu' o' howes and knowes and greens sac grassy l' the heather muirs" ' Ma Conscience '.