The Kittle Kink is a real left hand dog-leg hole - the most decided of its kind at Gleneagles. It is 420 yards in length and there is a rise in level of 6 feet from tee to green. You drive from high ground across a rough declivity spanned by the Beeches Brig, a quaint rustic structure that takes its name from the group of fine beech trees to the right. The declivity - it is immediately in front of the tee - is the hazard that traps a topped drive, but a long drive should take you over the Little Rig that lies ahead- - a fine carry from the tee. A brassie, or cleek shot, is all that should then be required to reach the green, because the second half of the fairway is of close cropped heather and grass that has a way of teeing your ball and giving it a perfect lie for a full stroke. As will be seen from the plan, the Muckle Rig is now the boundary to the right and the Little Rig to the left, the latter having a bunker almost at the bend to punish the tee shot that may be ever so slightly sliced. Your second shot must not be pulled or the ball will land in a deep ravine. The narrow port for the approach does not favour a run-up; you must play a lofted shot to avoid the bunkers, one of which, stretching right across the fairway, calls for judgment and accuracy. The green, somewhat unique in its character, extends to fully half an acre in area, and is one of the largest of the eighteen. It has the appearance of being a miniature of the whole course. A pronounced serpentine ridge running through it calls for special judgment, although Braid regarding it with characteristic equanimity allows two putts and no more.