Robert D. Beveridge is an American

polo Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard ...

player.

Biography

He became a seven-goal player in 1967. He won the U.S. Open Polo Championship in 1957, 1963, 1971 and 1973.Horace A. Laffaye, ''Polo in the United States: A History'', McFarland & Company, 2011 p.345-34

/ref> His teams recorded titles in the 20-goal Silver Cup in 1954, 1960 and 1961, the Butler National Handicap in 1956, 1957 and 1977, the America Cup in 1966, the Chairman’s Cup in 1967 and 1968, and the Inter-Circuit in 1953, 1966 and 1968. He played on the U.S.A. World 30-Goal team that played in

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in 1966. He also won the Camacho Cup in 1974 and 1975 and the Benson & Hedges tournament in

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in 1974. He sat on the Board of Governors of the

United States Polo Association The United States Polo Association (USPA) is the national governing body for the sport of polo in the United States. Introduction Established in 1890, by David Grubbs the USPA provides resources to over 4,500 individual members and 250 polo club ...

's Southwest Circuit and as Chairman of the Handicap Committee of the USPA. He was inducted into the

Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame The Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization to celebrate the sport of polo.Horace Laffaye, Dennis J. Amato, ''Polo in the United States: A History'', Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2011, p. 28/ref> Overview It ...

on February 17, 2006. He is the father of Tito’s Handmade Vodka founder Tito Beveridge.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beveridge, Robert D. Living people American polo players Year of birth missing (living people)