Peter Toogood

{{Short description|Australian amateur golfer (1930–2019)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox golfer | name = Peter Toogood | image = | imagesize =  | caption = | fullname = Peter Alfred Toogood | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|4|11|df=y}} | birth_place = North Adelaide, South Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|6|5|1930|4|11|df=y}} | death_place = Tasmania | height = | weight = | nationality = {{AUS}} | residence = | spouse = | partner = | children = | college = | status = Amateur | yearpro =  | retired =  | prowins = | otherwins = | majorwins =  | masters = DNP | usopen = DNP | open = T15: 1954 | pga = DNP | wghofid =  | wghofyear =  | award1 =  | year1 =  | award2 = | year2 = | awardssection =  }} '''Peter Alfred Toogood''', {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|AM|MBE}} (11 April 1930 – 5 June 2019)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.golf.org.au/newsdisplay/vale-peter-toogood-a-genuine-legend/103774 |title=Vale Peter Toogood, a genuine legend |publisher=Golf Australia |date=6 June 2019 |access-date=6 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606051059/https://www.golf.org.au/newsdisplay/vale-peter-toogood-a-genuine-legend/103774 |archive-date=6 June 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/6203050/tasmanias-best-golfer-peter-toogood-dies-aged-89/ |title=Tasmania's best golfer Peter Toogood dies aged 89 |first=Hamish |last=Geale |newspaper=The Advocate (Tasmania) |date=6 June 2019}}</ref> was an Australian amateur golfer from Tasmania. He won the Australian Amateur in 1954 and the Tasmanian Open eight times. He was the leading amateur in the 1954 Open Championship and was part of the team that won the inaugural Eisenhower Trophy in 1958.

==Early life== His father, Alf Toogood, son of Alfred Toogood, Sr., was born in England in 1895 and had arrived in Australia in about 1919. He was also the grandson of Alfred Toogood, Sr.

Toogood was born in North Adelaide, South Australia on 11 April 1930.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29023348 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=18 April 1930 |accessdate=30 June 2018 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> His father, Alf Toogood, had recently been appointed professional at The Grange Golf Club in Adelaide.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128984629 |title=Grange Golf Club |newspaper=The News (Adelaide) |volume=XIV |issue=2,075 |location=South Australia |date=11 March 1930 |accessdate=30 June 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In 1936, when Toogood was six, the family moved from Tasmania to South Australia so his father could become a professional at Kingston Beach Club.<ref>{{cite news |date=15 February 1936 |title=Engagement In Tasmania For Alf Toogood |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55727106 |accessdate=30 June 2018 |newspaper=The Mail (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=21 |issue=1,238}}</ref> As an 8-year-old he made a hole-in-one at the 7th hole at Kingston Beach.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168823865 |title=Boy's notable feat |newspaper=Daily Mercury |volume=73 |issue=28 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=2 February 1939 |accessdate=7 June 2019 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

==Golf career== Toogood was the leading amateur in the 1950, 1952, 1955, and 1957 Australian Opens, and in 1954 was leading amateur in The Open Championship.<ref name=mbe/> Earlier in 1954 he reached the last-16 of the Amateur Championship before losing to Joe Carr at the 20th hole.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JDxAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UVkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3991%2C3092799 |title=Controversial decision saves Carr |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=28 May 1954 |page=4}}</ref> He defeated his brother John in the final of the 1954 Australian Amateur, leading to the famous headline "Toogood Was Too Good For Toogood".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27254733 |title=Toogood Was Too Good For Toogood |newspaper=The Mercury (Hobart) |volume=CLXXV |issue=26,120 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=11 September 1954 |accessdate=30 June 2018 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He was selected in 1958 for Australia's team for the first Eisenhower Trophy 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.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://gsrpdf.lib.msu.edu/ticpdf.py?file=/1950s/1958/581104.pdf |title=World Is Winner In Team Event |magazine=USGA Journal And Turf Management |first=Joseph C. |last=Dey, Jr. |date=November 1958 |pages=4–7}}</ref>

Toogood won the Tasmanian Open eight times: in 1949, 1951, and six years in succession from 1954 to 1959.<ref name=mbe/> He also won the New Zealand Amateur in 1956, beating Bob Charles 3&2 in the 36-hole final.<ref name=mbe/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84392274 |title=NZ Open win to Toogood |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |location=Victoria, Australia |date=18 October 1956 |accessdate=6 June 2019 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

==Personal life== His father won two Tasmanian Opens, in 1938 and 1950. Peter Toogood finished runner-up behind his father in the 1950 event.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52788434 |title=A. Toogood wins Open title |newspaper=The Examiner (Tasmania) |volume=CIX |issue=165 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=26 September 1950 |accessdate=30 June 2018 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==

* In 1980, Toogood was awarded the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110976281?searchTerm=%22arthur%20smaills%22&searchLimits= |title=The New Year Honours List |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=31 December 1979 |page=8}}</ref><ref name="mbe">{{cite web |url=http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/csr/sportrec/hall_of_fame/recipients/peter_alfred_toogood |title=Peter Alfred Toogood MBE |publisher= Department of Premier and Cabinet, Tasmania}}</ref> * In 1993, the Australasian Golf Museum, located at Bothwell, Tasmania, was founded in his memory * In 2006, Toogood was appointed Member of the Order of Australia<ref>{{cite web |url=https://worldwideweird.wordpress.com/2006/01/26/and-the-australian-of-the-year-award-goes-to-someone-else/ |title=And The Australian of the Year Award Goes to – Someone Else |date=26 January 2006}}</ref>

==Team appearances== *Eisenhower Trophy (representing Australia): 1958 (winners) *Commonwealth Tournament (representing Australia): 1959 *Sloan Morpeth Trophy (representing Australia): 1956 (winners), 1969 (winners) *Australian Men's Interstate Teams Matches (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

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