Belle Robertson

Belle Robertson MBE
Personal information
Full name	Isabella Robertson
Born	(1936-04-11) 11 April 1936 (age 88) Perth, Scotland
Sporting nationality	Scotland
Career
Status	Amateur

Isabella Robertson (née McCorkindale) MBE (born 11 April 1936) is a Scottish golfer who won the British Ladies Amateur in 1981.[1][2] Robertson represented Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup as a player on seven occasions and twice as non-playing captain.[1] She was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.[3]

Career

Robertson learned to play golf at Dunaverty Golf Club in Argyll, Scotland.[1] She won the British Ladies Amateur title in 1981 at Conwy Golf Club in Caernarvonshire, Wales, having been runner-up three times: 1959 at Royal Ascot Golf Club, 1965 at St Andrews, and at Gullane Golf Club in 1970.[1] She won the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship on seven occasions.[1]

Robertson represented Great Britain and Ireland as a player on seven occasions in the Curtis Cup (1960, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1982, 1986).[1] She was a non-playing captain in 1974 and 1976.[1] On her ninth appearance in the competition, she experienced victory for the first time, beating the U.S. team 13–5 at the Prairie Dunes Country Club, Kansas in 1986.[1]

Notable wins

• British Ladies Amateur – 1981[1]
• Scottish Women's Amateur Championship – 1965, 1966, 1971, 1972, 1978, 1980, 1986[1]
• New Zealand Ladies Amateur – 1981[3]
• British Ladies Amateur Stroke Play Championship – 1971, 1972, 1985[1]
• Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Stroke Play Championship – 1973, 1978, 1986[1]

Team appearances

Amateur

• Curtis Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1960, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974 (non-playing captain), 1976 (non-playing captain), 1982, 1986 (winners)
• Vagliano Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1959 (winners), 1963 (winners), 1967 (non-playing captain), 1969, 1971 (winners), 1981, 1985 (winners)
• Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Scotland): 1964
• European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Scotland): 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1981, 1983, 1985[2]
• Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1966, 1968, 1972, 1980, 1982
• Commonwealth Trophy (representing Great Britain): 1971 (winners)

Honours

• Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to golf[1]
• Voted "Scottish Sportswoman of the Year" four times[1]
• Voted "Women Golfer of the Year" three times[1][4]
• Inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002[1]
• Became one of the first female members of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in February 2015[5]
• Inducted into Scottish Women in Sport Hall of Fame in 2018

References

1. "A Sporting Nation". BBC. November 2005. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
2. "Women Golfers' Museum, Famous Golfers, Belle Robertson". Gillian Kirkwood. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
3. "Belle Robertson". Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. 2002. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
4. "Award for Belle Robertson". The Herald. 29 November 1971. Archived from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
5. "Princess Royal among first women to join St Andrews". BBC Sport. 10 February 2015. Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2018.

External links

• Belle Robertson at the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame