Named after our imperturbable adviser - a happy compliment to the great golfer to whose experience as a player and to whose knowledge as a designer the Gleneagles Course owes so much - Braid's Brawest, as the name implies, is one of the best. With the Heuch o' Dule as the northern boundary and the Muckle Rig on the right, you drive from a high tee of echelon form down a magnificent fairway towards the pleasingly placed plateau green about 435 yards away and 16 feet below the level of the tee. Your drive must be far and sure, because a bunker bearing the becoming title Auld Nick - anglice the Devil - awaits the ball that just fails to carry Auld

• BRADS BRAWEST- 13TH HOLE. • 435 YARDS

Nick Brae. Many a player would fain fill up that bunker! To do so, however, would greatly lessen interest from the tee. Experts are agreed that a bunker with a "draw" into it is often more serviceable than a large sandy waste. Auld Nick has a way of catching any stroke that is off the straight path, and it also draws into its clutches any ball that may land from 8 to 10 yards short of it, while if a ball fails to carry over the hill it will probably run back 8 yards and be in trouble. Escape such trouble, however, and a long brassie shot may reach the green. But beware of the seductive bunker known as Young Nick which guards the green on the right. Young Nick will catch a ball that is not hit with sufficient strength - "Even if the ball land 8 yards to the left of it," says Braid. We may presume once more that you have gained "the length" desired and have got well up near the pin. Two putts may perhaps be required, because the green nestling among the howes and knowes although presenting a magnificent surface is large and somewhat undulating.