Bob Toski

Background

He was born in Haydenville, Massachusetts of Polish descent, the eighth of nine children born to Walenty Algutoski and his wife Mary.

Career

He was inducted into the Professional Golf Association Golf Professional Hall of Fame in 2013. Toski found stardom on the Tour despite weighing only 135 pounds. Foreign many years, until the arrival of the similar-sized Chi-Chi Rodriguez, he was the smallest Tour player.

Later he found renewed fame as a leading golf coach, assisting tour pros such as World Golf Hall of Fame inductees Tom Kite and Judy Rankin as well as Australian star Bruce Crampton.

He also wrote several golf instructional books, and made some of the earliest golf instruction videos. In the early 1980s he was a regular on National Broadcasting Company Sports golf telecasts.

Toski began playing on the (now Champions Tour) upon its formation in 1980. He left the Tour in January 1986 after he became involved in a controversy over how he marked his ball in a tournament in Japan.

Fellow player Gay Brewer stated that Toski improved his lie by marking it away from a spike mark near where his ball had come to rest on the green.

Toski said that he had no recollection of any rules infraction. He returned in April 1986 and played several more years on the Tour. wins (5) 1953 (1) Insurance City Open Other wins (4) Other senior wins (2).

Achievements

• 1953 (1) Insurance City Open 1954 (4) Baton Rouge Open, Azalea Open, Eastern Open, World Championship of Golf this list is probably incomplete 1958 Massachusetts Open, Jamaica Open, Puerto Rico Open 1959 Maine Open 1990 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf - Legendary Division (with Mike Fetchick) 1992 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf - Legendary Division (with Mike Fetchick).

Membership

He was the first living instructor inducted into the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame, and he is also a member of the National Polish-American Hall of Fame.