Go ahead, play the King’s Course first. Not because you need to, but because everybody says you should, and if you don’t they’ll annoy you with asking why you didn’t play the King’s Course. There, you’ve played it. It’s a masterpiece and amazing and beautiful and it probably beat you up a good bit and now you’re ready for something to savor. The after dinner drink, or maybe that cigar you’ve been saying. Whatever it is, it’s the thing you sit back and enjoy, for yourself, in your own space and time. The Queen’s Course doesn’t care what you think about it. It doesn’t care that some say it’s short, or that it’s technically the lesser course. It knows that, in the end, when you’ve finished playing the course you’re supposed to play, this is the course you’ll want to return to.