One for the Tain Golf Club scrapbook (left to right) David and Sammy Vass, Sir Bob Charles and Munro Ferries (image by courtesy of Robin Wilson, click to enlarge).

Sir Bob Charles beats his age again with 71 at Tain

By ROBIN WILSON
Every left handed golfers' boyhood idol, New Zealander Sir Bob Charles, ended his two week tour of Scottish links golf courses on his "wish list" of courses to play at Tain on Wednesday where for the first time in his eight course tour that began at North Berwick on June 29 he was partnered by a fellow lefthander.

Sir Bob, now 73, and still the first and only left handed golfer to have won the Open Championship (Royal Lytham 1963), was knighted for his services to golf in 1999 in a career that saw him add the British Senior Championship to his Open title and another eighty professional worldwide tour wins.
Making his Tain visit stand out from from all his others over the past two weeks was having local scratch lefty Munro Ferries with him, and completing the four- ball Tain's first ever father and daughter club champions, David and Sammy Vass.

Tain club captain Rob Hudson welcomed Sir Bob to Tain and before teeing off he was introduced to Scottish Golf Union president, Tain resident Ian H Ross.
The two lefties won the game by 4 and 3, Charles chipping in for an eagle 3 at the 13th and a birdie three on the next hole to come home in 32 for a one over par score of 71, beating his age by two shots.