page_title: Manuel de la Torre (golfer)
section_title: Tournament wins
hierarchical_section_title: Manuel de la Torre (golfer) / Tournament wins
caption_attribution_description: English: NCAA'42 Championship. Runnerup. Winner "Sandy" Tatum (left). 2nd Manuel de la Torre.
context_page_description: Manuel de la Torre was recognized as being one of golf's top teachers. His career includes playing competitively on tour, head golf professional at Milwaukee Country Club one of America's most esteemed golf clubs, and a career of teaching both tour professional and amateur golfers. Among the tour professionals he has taught are Masters champion Tommy Aaron, U.S. Women's Open champion Carol Mann, du Maurier Classic champion Martha Nause and Women's British Open champion Sherri Steinhauer. He was the first member of the PGA to be awarded their Teacher of the Year Award in 1986. He is one of only several golf instructors to be inducted into both the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame as well as the PGA Hall of Fame.
  At Northwestern University, he was captain of the golf team and runner-up in the 1942 NCAA Championship. De la Torre won numerous golf tournaments, including the Wisconsin State Open five times and the Wisconsin PGA Professional Championship five times. He was elected to the Wisconsin Golf Hall of Fame in 1975. In 1999 he was inducted into the Northwestern University Athletic Hall of Fame.
context_section_description: Prior to his victories as a professional, he played for Highland Park High School in 1940 and was individual state golf champion. He led the Giants to the school’s first state team title. Playing for Northwestern University in 1942 he was runner-up in the NCAA Championship. 
  To put the following professional victories in context, these wins were accomplished while working full-time (50+ hours weekly) as a club professional. While de la Torre competed in and placed in the top ten in various tour events, he was only able to play in those that were scheduled during the off-season of the country club at which he was engaged. This meant that the only tournaments available to him were those scheduled between October and April. De la Torre competed both in the U.S. tour and in the Caribbean tour (Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean Islands). 
  1952 Wisconsin State Open
  1953 Wisconsin State Open, Wisconsin PGA Championship
  1954 Capital Times Invitational
  1955 Wisconsin State Open, Wisconsin PGA Championship
  1957 Wisconsin PGA Championship
  1959 Wisconsin PGA Championship
  1961 Wisconsin State Open
  1963 Cherryland Open Championship
  1964 Cherryland Open Championship
  1965 Hope of Tomorrow Championship
  1968 Wisconsin State Open
  1970 Wisconsin PGA Championship
  1972 Westview Invitational
  1973 National Open Seniors Classic
  1976 Wisconsin PGA Match Play Championship
  1987 Wisconsin PGA Senior Championship
caption: 1942 NCAA Championship (Manuel on right)
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