JIM HARDIE HAS A NZ
ROUND WITH
BOB CHARLES

It's been the best of winters and the worst of winters so far for North-east veteran golfer Jim Hardie.
At this time of the year he is usually halfway through his winter holiday in New Zealand (where it is summer, of course).
But he came home to Aberdeen before Christmas because the weather in New Zealand was so bad - even snow showers! - that he thought he would be better off back home.
Jim did have one highlight of his abbreviated stay to recall with relish. He played a round of golf with Bob Charles, the left-handed New Zealander who won the Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 1963 after a play-off with the American, Phil Rodgers.
Jim has promised to tell Scottishgolfview.com all about it.
+Bob Charles is pictured at Balgownie in 2005 during the Senior British Open.