The family of James Bond author Ian Fleming held a charity golf day at his old club the Royal St George's in Sandwich on Wednesday.

Money raised from the event will go towards the British Heart Foundation.

The link with the charity is particularly poignant as Fleming died of a heart attack at the age of 56 in August, 1964.

Head of fund-raising for the British Heart Foundation, Sara Jane Woods, said: “We were approached by the Fleming family about the event because Ian had his first heart attack in his forties.

“They day before he died he played on this course so this was the right place for us to hold a fund-raiser for our charity.

“Without events like this we would not be able to carry on inventing more incredible solutions to heart disease and drugs to let people like Ian Fleming live a long and happy life.”

In Fleming’s novel Goldfinger at least three chapters were devoted to the Royal St George's Golf Club in a game of golf between James Bond and Auric Goldfinger.

The course was renamed Royal St Mark's in the novel.

The cliffs at St Margaret’s Bay were also included in his novel Moonraker as the base for the missile of the same title.