Robert Stanley Weir

Name: Robert Stanley Weir
Category: Builder – Writer
Nominated: 2019

Achievements:
• Canada’s first golf writer.  His works can be found in Canadian Golfer, Golf Magazine, Golfer’s Magazine, Golf Illustrated, Vanity Fair and Harpers Bazaar.

• Wrote on the subject of golf for over two decades. Over 90 articles have been uncovered currently.
• Weir’s Golfers in Action series profiled golfers Walter Travis, C.B. MacDonald, Willie Anderson, among others.
• Weir was an early investigator into golf psychology.
• Recognized by the Golf Journalist Association of Canada as Canada’s first writer.

Golf Background:
• Royal Montreal Golf Club member 1890-1901
• Outremont Golf Club founding member, 1902-1913
                 -Clubs first President
                 -Donated a Handicap Medal
• Kanawaki Golf Club founding member, 1914 – 1920
• Golf Canada Board Member – 1904

Other items of note:

• Wrote the English lyrics to O’Canada
• Bernard Darwin wrote of Weir: “He has an easily intelligible method of explaining something, which is horribly difficult to explain”.
• Published two books of poetry
• Legal work included the writing: The Administration of the Old Regime of Canada, Legislative Acts for Education, and Municipal Code and Code of Civil Procedure

Golf Writings:

To read the golf writings of R.S. Weir, click here.