Peter Alfred Toogood, (11 April 1930 – 5 June 2019) was an Australian amateur golfer from

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. He won the

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in 1954 and the

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eight times. He was the leading amateur in the

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and was part of the team that won the inaugural

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Early life

Toogood was born in

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on 11 April 1930. His father, Alf Toogood, had recently been appointed professional at

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. He was the grandson of Alfred Toogood, Sr. As an 8-year-old he made a hole-in-one at the 7th hole at Kingston Beach Golf Club.

Golf career

Toogood was the leading amateur in the 1950, 1952, 1955, and 1957

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s, and in 1954 was leading amateur in

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. Earlier in 1954 he reached the last-16 of the

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before losing to

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at the 20th hole. He defeated his brother John in the final of the 1954

, leading to the famous headline "Toogood Was Too Good For Toogood". He was selected in 1958 for Australia's team for the first

at St Andrews, where they beat the United States by two strokes in a playoff. His third round of 71 was the only sub-par round of the competition. Toogood won the

eight times: in 1949, 1951, and six years in succession from 1954 to 1959. He also won the

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in 1956, beating Bob Charles 3&2 in the 36-hole final.

Family

His father, Alf Toogood, son of Alfred Toogood, Sr., was born in England in 1895 and had arrived in Australia in about 1919. He moved to Tasmania from South Australia in 1936 as professional at the Kingston Beach Club, and won two

s, in 1938 and 1950. Peter Toogood finished runner-up behind his father in the 1950 event.

Awards and honors

Toogood was awarded the

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in 1980 and appointed

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in 2006. Toogood's lasting contribution to Tasmanian golf is the foundation in 1993 of the Australasian Golf Museum, located at

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Team appearances

(representing Australia):

(winners) *

Commonwealth Tournament The Commonwealth Tournament was a men's team golf tournament between teams of amateurs golfers from Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. It was played roughly every four years, in 1954, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1971 and 1975. I ...

(representing Australia): 1959 *

Sloan Morpeth Trophy The Sloan Morpeth Trophy was an amateur team golf tournament, played between Australia and New Zealand. It was contested irregularly from 1947 to 2016. The trophy was presented by Sloan Morpeth in 1956. From 1993 to 2005 the two countries played ea ...

(representing Australia): 1956 (winners), 1969 (winners) *

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(representing Tasmania): 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968 (winners), 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 (winners), 1976, 1977 (winners), 1978, 1979, 1980

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Toogood, Peter Australian male golfers Amateur golfers Members of the Order of Australia Australian Members of the Order of the British Empire Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal Sportspeople from Adelaide Sportsmen from Tasmania 1930 births 2019 deaths