Canadian-born Scot Dean Robertson will be looking next year as the new GB & I Walker Cup to end what will be a 24-year USA home soil Waker Cup winning advantage.
‘Deano’, as he has long been affectionately known, has been rewarded for his post pro playing career work by being named the fourth straight Scot to captain GB & I at next year’s 50th Walker Cup at Cypress Point in California.
‘Deano’ also is the 17th Scot to take on the captaincy role.
The now 53-year-old kick-started his career at Cochrane Castle, and was capped in winning the Scottish Youths (1991), Scottish Amateur Stroke-Play (1992) and the Scottish Amateur (1993).
Scot Dean Robertson beccoming the 17th Scot to captain a GB & I Walker Cup side.
The freckle-faced Scot turned pro soon after the 1993 Walker Cup where Padraig Harrington was a team-mate and it was the Irishman, he denied in capturing his only DP World Tour title at the 1999 Italian Open.
Since ending his 239-tournament playing career in 2007 at Gleneagles2, Deano’s forged a career in coaching, including his long-time current role as the High Performance Golf Coach at Stirling University.
Now he has the GB & I reins, he looks to end a four event USA victory run, as well as, win for a first time on US soil since Peter McEvoy’s 2001 GB & I side were victorious in Georgia.
‘Deano’ said: “To have represented Great Britain and Ireland in the St Andrews Trophy and the Walker Cup was the pinnacle of my amateur career and an incredible privilege.
“The honour now of captaining GB & I is something I could not have imagined but it is one that I am thrilled about, so I look forward now to bringing home the trophy”.
Robertson’s former DP World Tour colleague David Drysdale capped his first first round of the new Asian Tour season chipping-in for an eagle ‘3’ on route to a three-under 68 and six shots off the lead at the Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur.
Dysdale, 49, is fully exempt this year after retaining his Tour card last year in his rookie season.
