David Robertson (golfer)

David Robertson

Player information
Full name	David Donaldson Robertson
birthday	March 21, 1869
place of birth	Shawlands , Scotland
date of death	September 13, 1937
Place of death	Ashbury , England
society
society	Career ended
position	Inner three quarters
Clubs as active
Years	society	Games (points)
	Cambridge University	()
National team
Years	National team	Games (points)
1893	Scotland	1 (0)

David Robertson medal table
golf
Great Britain
Olympic games
bronze	Paris 1900	singles

David Donaldson Robertson (born March 21, 1869 in Shawlands , today: part of Glasgow , † September 13, 1937 in Ashbury , Berkshire , England ) was a Scottish golf and rugby player .

Life

David Robertson was born in Shawland, now a part of Glasgow, to the wine merchant William Aleander Robertson . He first attended the Haileybury and Imperial Service College in Hertfordshire and later the Glasgow Academy . He studied at the University of Glasgow before moving to Christ's College Cambridge in 1889 . In 1893 he completed his bachelor's degree and joined in 1895 as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn .

With the outbreak of World War I , Robertson joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve .

Sports career

golf

At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900 Robertson won the individual silver medal.

rugby

Robertson first appeared as a rugby player for the University of Cambridge in the varsity match in 1892 . In 1893 he was nominated for an international match for the Scottish national team against Wales . The Welsh won 9-0, after which some players, including Robertson, were eliminated. He never represented Scotland in rugby again.

Web links

• David Robertson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fletcher Robinson & Rugby (Part VI) ( Memento from August 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ David Robertson player profile. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .