Welcome to the Eric Anders Lang show today. We have a very special guest. Sir Bob Charles, how do you, how do you, how do you how do you like to have people refer to you?

Just plain old Bob. I'm still Bob. I'm still Bob. I started out as Robert, of course, Robert James Charles and it, if you look in some of the ancient golfing records, it was Charles okay and then it became Bob and the only person that

called me Robert was my mother so everybody else calls me Bob which I respond to in various ways.

Depending on how they say exactly.

Yes.

What are you the best call for New Zealand?

Well, my record would suggest that.

Certainly not, presently, I'd be, if I was, I'd be out there playing but no I had my 50 60 years of competition

and enjoyed a lot of success along the way and I am just a social golfer now and

only fit to play on par three courses.

Where you played yesterday.

I was in a group, I think, a couple of holes in front of you,

so I was already off the course when you finished off the ninth hole with a, what do you call them down here?

Hole in one, Ace, what do you call it?

A hole in one rather than an ace.

I think an ace is more of an Americanism than yeah, it's just a whole and one.

I didn't realize that that a whole and one that an ace is sort of a because we have a thing

where you know we go around filming golf all over the world and so every time we're on a

part three we film it and we call it the ace cam and in some ways you know I don't

know if yesterday's success on your on your ninth hole if that counts but we saw it we have some video from the party last night where we met originally but

Congratulations. Well thank you it certainly counts in my number of holes in one I've had.

In various places around the world, South Africa and the United States of course,

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