Since turning 50 in 2025, Robert Polk has proven himself one of Colorado’s premier senior amateur golfers. At the time of his induction, the University of Mississippi alum had 16 CGA titles to his credit, including one while competing against far younger competition.
There’s one Mid-Amateur championship (for players age 25 and older), five Senior Amateurs, two Senior Match Plays, two Super-Senior Amateurs, one Super-Senior Match Play and five Senior Four-Balls. In fact, in 2007, Polk won the CGA Mid- Amateur and the Senior Amateur in the same year, which is no small feat. In that year’s Mid-Am, Polk fended off two players who are now among the CGA’s open-age Players of the Year—Michael Harrington (2014) and Steve Irwin (2004).
In 2025, at age 70, Polk captured his latest CGA title, his first in the Super-Senior Match Play. As Polk once said, demonstrating his Southern roots, that’s “pretty tall cotton.” Over the course of 15 seasons (2007-21), Polk earned the CGA Senior Player of the Year Award four times, the most since now-Colorado Golf Hall of Famer John Olive captured the honor a record seven times from 1997-2005.
Polk’s fifth Senior Player of the Year came in 2021, when he was 66 and became the oldest winner of any CGA senior major, when he won both his fifth CGA Senior Amateur and second CGA Senior Match Play—a sweep he previously accomplished in 2009). That year he also became the first person to win both the CGA Senior and Super-Senior Player of the Year honors in the same season.
In another age-related achievement, Polk and partner Bill Fowler qualified for the first U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship, an open-age event which took place in 2015, when the 60-year-old was the oldest player in the field. Eight years earlier, he competed in the U.S. Senior Open.
Playing ability is just part of Polk’s golf résumé. The former CEO and co-owner of Polk Majestic Travel Group was a longtime volunteer member of the CGA board of directors and the chairman of the CGA Tournament Committee. He is a big-time supporter of the Evans Scholarship for caddies—both financially and otherwise—serving as a Western Golf Association director since 2010.
