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Peter Robertson
Lanark/Edinburgh

Many golf professionals in this clubmaker section continued in their jobs to ripe old ages. That was not to be for Peter Robertson, who died in post at Braid Hills aged 62, but what is remarkable is how long he continued to play top-class tournament golf.

Born in Nairn in 1881, he was a caddy on the Nairn links but then followed an apprenticeship in gardening. He returned to golfing, though, and became professional at Lanark.

In 1908 he went to the famous Braid Hills municipal course in Edinburgh as professional. He was third in the Scottish Professional Championship in 1914 then served with the Royal Scots during the First World War. He was reported wounded in 1917. On his return he won the Scottish Professional Championship in 1921 and again in 1924.

He played for Scotland against Ireland in 1932 and that year became the first professional attached to a Scottish club to be Captain of the PGA. He was non-playing captain of the Scottish team in 1937 against the other three home countries.

1937 also saw him reach the matchplay stages of the News of the World tournament and taking a bit of hammering from Dai Rees, then an assistant at Surbiton and not even born when Robertson moved to Braid Hills. Two years later he was playing in the qualifying rounds of the £1250 tournament at Prestonfield, a course he designed in the early 1920s.

In his later years he suffered from heart trouble and died at his home at the Braid Hills on 13 October 1943.

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