A 79-year-old golfer from Stornoway hit a hole in one on Saturday for the first time after 38 years of playing.
Peter O’Brien was with his son Murdo, 48, who originally got his father interested in the game in the first place back in 1980.
They were playing as a pair in a 12-hole winter league match at the Stornoway Golf Club when the elder O’Brien made the shot at the short par three 9th hole.
Despite feeling that he was having a good game he had no inkling of what was about to happen.
Mr O’Brien said: “I thought I was playing quite well, I was hitting the ball quite well and you feel like you are going to hit a good one.
“I played the 110-odd yard hole with and it went right up in the air and it was looking good – then it went in. We started jumping up and down in surprise, shouting and bawling.”
Murdo O’Brien said: “We were on the 9th and he hit a wedge to the left of the hole and it just trickled in. It was not a fluke, it was a proper shot.
“He has been playing for nearly 40 years and this is his first hole in one, the four of us couldn’t believe it.”
He added the shot was all the more remarkable because “usually his eyesight is not great and he asks ‘where did that shot go?’”
Later the happy golfer bought a bottle of whisky to share with the clubhouse but his luck continued as he won another bottle in the raffle the same night.