Gleneagles King’s

Auchterarder, Perthshire

DESIGNER: Braid, 1919
YARDAGE: 6,790
PAR: 71

GREEN FEES: Oct 16-31 £95; Nov £70; Dec-Feb Mon-Thurs £60, Fri-Sun £70.
CONTACT: 01764 662231, www.gleneagles.com/golf
CLUB COMMENT: No significant changes.

The King’s is a Braid design which is sadly now too short to test the pros, having frequently been a stunning venue for the Scottish Open.Braid was commissioned to lay out the course when railway chief Donald Matheson set about creating a ‘Palace in the Glens’ in 1908. Moorland in nature, the fairways wind their way through swathes of heather and gorse, leading Lee Trevino to say: “If heaven is as good as this, I sure hope they have some tee times left.”