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Fullname: | Alexander Lawrie Robson |
Birth Date: | 7 February 1898 |
Birth Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Death Place: | Peterborough, Ontario, Canada |
Nationality: | |
Residence: | Peterborough, Ontario |
Status: | Professional |
Prowins: | 8 |
Award1: | Ontario Golf Hall of Fame |
Year1: | 2008 |
Alexander Lawrie Robson (February 7, 1898 – January 27, 1974)[1] [2] was a Scottish-Canadian professional golfer.
Robson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Having moved to Canada, he had a successful tournament career, highlighted by winning the Canadian PGA Championship in 1932,[3] and finishing as runner-up in the Canadian Open in 1933. He also won the Millar Trophy, originally awarded for the Ontario PGA Match Play championship and later the Canadian PGA Match Play, on six occasions.
In 1934, as recognition for his consistently good play, Robson was invited to compete in the inaugural Masters Tournament but he was unable to play. In 2008 he was inducted into the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame.[4]
Robson served as the head professional at several golf clubs in Ontario, most notably at Islington Golf Club in Etobicoke for many years until 1939,[5] when he moved to Kawartha Golf & Country Club in Peterborough where he remained for 25 years.[6] [7]