Earnings
Since he turned professional toward the end of 1960, Charles has earned more than £20,000 from tournaments, exhibitions and sponsorships.
His income from 1962 alone was more than £10,000. About half of this was earned in Britain, where he vied with the Australians PW Thomson and KDG Nagle, and an Irishman, C O'Connor, for the leading place in the tournament-winning list.
In a few weeks in New Zealand in September and October, he earned about £1500, including $3000 for a televised match lasting a day and a half.
Since reaching the United States in January after being married in Johannesburg to a South African girl, Chalres has continued to be successful, winning about $3000 in January alone from professional-amateur tournaments and exhibitions.
Protected
He is now so highly regarded that he is a member of the "stable" of the greatest golfers in the world - Nicklaus, Player, Arnold Palmer and Doug Sanders - which has been formed by an American lawyer, Mark McCormack, to protect their earnings from taxation.