St Andrews Golf Tours
- Scotland's Finest Golf Courses
St
Andrews Golf Tours Proudly Present - Gleneagles Kings
Course. Gleneagles Kings Course can be incorporated into
your Scotland Golf Vacation.
The King's Course, opened in 1919, is a
masterpiece of design, which has tested the aristocracy
of golf, both professional and amateur.
James Braid's plan for the King's Course
was to test even the best players' shot-making skills
over the eighteen holes.
You find out all about it with your first
approach shot. If you have driven straight and long from
the tee, you will have what looks like a simple pitch to
the elevated green. But you must be sure to select the
correct club, because the shot is always a little longer
than you think, with the wind over the putting surface
often stronger than you can feel it from the fairway.
And if you do not make the severely sloping green, a
bunker yawns twenty feet below.
Selecting the right club for each
approach shot is the secret on the King's. It is
certainly one of the most beautiful and exhilarating
places to play golf in the world, with the springy
moorland turf underfoot, the sweeping views from the
tees all around, the rock-faced mountains to the north,
the green hills to the south, and the peaks of the
Trossachs and Ben Vorlich on the western horizon.
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