THE importance of having a golfer of proved ability permanently engaged at Gleneagles to supervise important matters directly related to the play, and to act, when desired, as instructor, was a necessity early foreseen, but it was not until the right man for the position could be found that the appointment was made. The choice fell on Gordon Lockhart, of Prestwick, one of the finest amateur golfers north of the Border, and whose record includes the honour of having represented Scotland against England in the Competitions of 1911 and 1912. He was semi-finalist in the Amateur Championship, 1911, and winner of the Irish Open Championship, 1912, besides being runner-up in 1910 and semi-finalist in 1913. Lockhart's acceptance of the position closed his career as an amateur, a career that - but for the war, during which he held His Majesty's commission - might have seen him winner of the great International Amateur event of the golfing year. In deciding, however, to devote his entire time to the game, he took the wider view of furthering its interests in a professional capacity at Gleneagles, and who knows but that under his guidance future amateur champions may gain their initial knowledge of the finer points of the game.

His acquaintance with Gleneagles is not of recent date He was one of the first to play on the course with which he is now so closely identified, and it may be recalled that he was the winner of the Scottish Amateur Championship (1920), one of the principal events of the Gleneagles season. It was made abundantly plain then that his style was particularly suited to the Championship test which the King's Course sets. His success at other centres in 1920 was no less marked. He won the Tennant Cup and the Hillhouse Cup, two of the most important golfing trophies in the West of Scotland, and, with Mr. John Wilson, he scored his sixth win for Prestwick (St. Nicholas) in the biggest foursome tourney of the year, a tourney tun under the auspices of the Glasgow Evening Times, and taken part in by players from all over Scotland. To these brief particulars may be added the fact that he holds the record for Turnberry (74) and also Prestwick (St. Nicholas) (68), where his handicap was plus 6, and prior to the period of the war he was returned winner in more competitions than he could ever hope to remember.