Clinton (Robbie) Robinson
Category: Builder – Architect
Inducted: 2002
Born: 1907
Place of Birth: St. Amadee, PQ
Clinton E. Robinson, better known as Robbie, loved the game of golf and spent his life bringing it to the masses. A golf course architect who apprenticed under the legendary Stanley Thompson, Robinson designed or remodelled more than 100 courses. Perhaps his single most significant contribution to the game was in the study of turfgrass and the dissemination of this information through the establishment of the Canadian Turfgrass shows and as the Green Section director for the RCGA in the 1950’s.
A list of Courses designed or remodelled by C.E. Robinson:
Alberta:
Windermere Golf and Country Club
Manitoba:
John Blumberg Municipal
Portage La Prairie Golf Club
Steinbach Fly-In Golf Club
New Brunswick:
CFG Gagetown Golf Club
Gowan Brae Golf Club
Miramichi Golf and Country Club
Moncton Golf and Country Club
Sussex Golf Club
Westfield Golf and Country Club
Restigouche Golf and Country Club
Newfoundland:
Terra Nova National Park Golf Club
Nova Scotia:
Abercrombie Country Club
Ken-Wo Golf and Country Club
Lingan Country Club
Northumberland Golf and Country Club
Oakfield Country Club
Seaview Golf Club
Truro Golf and Country Club
Ontario:
Bay of Quinte Golf Club
Bayview Country Club
Belleville Golf and Country Club
Beverly Golf and Country Club
Blue Mountain Golf and Country Club
Bowmanville Country Club
Brampton Golf Club
Briars Golf and Country Club
Bridgeport Fairways
Conestoga
Brockville Country Club
Cedar Brae Golf and Country Club
Conestoga Golf and Tennis Club
Coral Creek Golf and Country Club
Dalewood Golf and Country Club
Doon Valley Golf Club
Dryden Golf and Country Club
East Park Executive Golf Course
Elgin House Golf Course
Fort Frances Golf Club
Hamilton Golf and Country Club
Hawthorne Valley Golf and Country Club
Hidden Valley Golf Club
Lake St George Golf and Country Club
Lido Golf Centre
London Hunt and Country Club
Maple City Country Club
Mount Hope Golf and Country Club
Muskoka Lakes Golf and Country Club
Oakdale Golf and Country Club
Oakland Greens Golf Club
Oxford Golf and Country Club
Parkview Golf Club
Pine Lake Golf Club
Richmond Hill Golf and Country Club
Richview Golf and Country Club
Rideau View Golf and Country Club
St Thomas Golf and Country Club
South Muskoka and Country Club
Strathcona Golf Club
Sunningdale Country Club
Trafalgar Golf and Country Club
Twenty Valley Golf and Country Club
Tyandaga Municipal
Upper Canada Golf Club
Windermere Golf and Country Club
Prince Edward Island:
Brudenel Golf Club
Green Gables Golf Club
Mill River Golf Club
Stanhope Golf and Country Club
Quebec:
Baie Comeau Club de Golf
Saskatchewan:
Holiday Park Golf Club
Kenopsee Lake Men’s Golf Club
Madge Lake Golf Club
United States:
Lemontree Golf Club
Warren Golf Club
Courses remodeled by C.E. Robinson:
Alberta:
Calgary Golf and Country Club
Earl Grey Golf Club
British Columbia:
Burnaby Mountain Men’s Golf Club
Vancouver Golf Club
Manitoba:
Assiniboine Golf Club
Elmhurst Country Club
Pine Ridge Golf Club
St. Charles Country Club
New Brunswick:
Fredericton Golf Club
Riverside Country Club
Nova Scotia:
Amherst Golf and Country Club
Ontario:
Barcoven Golf and Country Club
Beach Grove Golf and Country Club
CFB Borden Golf and Country Club
Cherry Hill Golf Club
Credit Valley Golf and Country Club
Dundas Valley Golf Club
Glendale Golf Club
Glen Lawrence Golf and Country Club
Golfland
Huntington Golf and Country Club
Lambton Golf and Country Club
Oakville Golf Club
Oshawa Golf Club
Rosedale Golf Club
St. Catherines Golf and Country Club
St. George’s Golf and Country Club
Sarnia Golf and Country Club
Thornhill Country Club
Westmount Golf and Country Club
Whirlpool Golf Club
Prince Edward Island:
Belvedere Golf and Winter Club
Quebec:
Beaconsfield Golf Club
Elm Ridge Country Club
Kanawaki Golf Club
Royal Ottawa Golf Club
Saskatchewan:
Regina Golf Club
Wascana Golf and Country Club
Waskesiu Lake Golf Club
United States:
Dearborn Country Club
Monroe Country Club
Columbia:
Calis Golf Club
Medellin Golf Club
Mennezales Golf Club
Taken from Robinson & Carrick Associates Ltd. promotional piece:
C.E. « Robbie » Robinson has over forty-five years of experience in the field of golf course design, construction supervision, and maintenance consulting.
Following graduation from the University of Toronto’s Agricultural College, Mr. Robinson embarked on a ten year apprenticeship with the renowned golf course architect, Stanley Thompson. During his association with Thompson, Robinson assisted in the layour of several great courses incluing the Banff Springs Golf Club in the Canadian Rockies, St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Toronto, the Seigniory Club in Montebello, Quebec, and Cape Breton Highlands Golf Club in Nova Scotia. It is to the distinguished Thompson that Robinson gives much of his credit for his considerable knowledge in the field of golf course design.
Mr. Robinson furthered his knowledge and the profession by attending special courses in landscape design and turf science at Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts, and is recognized as one of the leading Canadian authorities on turf-grass culture and maintenance.
Mr. Robinson is a Fellow Member and twice Past President of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, and also a past Director of the Royal Canadian Golf Association, Greens Section.
Mr. Robinson has been involved in the design and remodeling of over 300 courses. A few of the better-known courses designed or remodeled by C.E. Robinson include:
- George’s Golf and Country Club, Toronto, Ontario, site of four Canadian Opens
- The Hamilton Golf and Country Club, Ancaster, Ontario, 3rd nine
- London Hunt and Country Club, London, Ontario, site of one Canadian Open (co-architect with Robert Trent Jones)
- Branford Golf and Country Club, site of the 1979 Canadian Amateur and the 1986 PGA of Canada Championship.
- Cherry Hill Club, Ridgeway, Ontario, site of the 1972 Canadian Open
- Westmount Golf and Country Club, Kitchener, Ontario
- Charles Country Club, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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