Bob Toski was the leading money winner on the PGA Tour in 1954 when Hogan, Snead, and other Hall of Famers were still playing. Bob had a three shot lead after five holes in the final round of the 1954 World Championship of Golf until he triple-bogied the sixth hole and by the 15^th hole he was three down. After an eagle on 16, Bob was again tied for the lead, and made a seven and a half foot putt  for birdie on 18 to win the $50,000 first prize and an additional $50,000 available in the form of a contract with Tam O’Shanter course owner, George May, for 50 worldwide exhibition events. This was the largest first prize in the history of golf at a time when winning the U.S. Open paid $6000 and second on the money list for the year was $20,000. Even though it wasn’t a major, it was because it had the strongest and best field of the year with the international players that were invited and travel expenses paid by George May.

“It took me five years to become a good teacher. I should have given everybody their money back the first five years. Teaching is an art, playing is a skill. You can only swing a golf club at a rate of speed with which the strength of your arms and hands can bare. The secret to golf is controlling your arm, hand, and wrist speed and time it with your body reacting and supporting that speed,” Bob stated.

PGA Tour Player, Ken Duke who works with Bob Toski, called in and said, “You can ask Bob Toski as many questions as you want and he always has an answer. He’s priceless, he’s touched my life, and so many others, just a special guy.” Ken, who won in Hartford in 2013, said Bob is a hard guy to do something for, so he was able to do two things. (1) After Ken qualified for the Masters by making the Tour Championship in 2009, he took Bob to the Masters and (2) Bob won in Hartford in 1953, 60 years before Ken, and Ken had both the 1954 and 2014 tournament programs with their pictures on the covers, put in a frame that said “Teacher, Student.” I asked Ken what Bob did for him and Ken said, “He took what I had and worked with it. I was too inside out and he got me swinging more left in a way that I could. He’s a get in your face guy and gets his point across. I don’t know if there was one time he said something negative. He was always positive. He encouraged me by telling me you got to play better, you’re a better player than that, and there’s no reason you can’t.” Bob said, “God gave me a gift to be a teacher. God gave me a gift to be a player.”

“We have so many negative thoughts in golf because we don’t understand how to swing the golf club. Knowledge is power transmitted into physical imagery. I try to transmit physical energy by being positive with the knowledge of how the body and the swing works to connect the golf club to the ball with square contact. Most people don’t make square contact. First thing you got to get is hand eye coordination.  Hand eye coordination starts with the putter. Aim the putter at the hole and see if you can square the club face and knock the ball in the hole,” said Bob. Bob can be reached at his home at 561-483-5055.

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I asked Gary about the kinematic sequence that creates the speed in the golf swing and he described a manuscript that Peter Kostis curiously obtained in 1986, which diagrams a three-lever system. It basically uses 6^th grade physics, Newtonian physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. If the golf swing creates four horse power, then how is that created? Long drive guys push up from the ground, Bubba is off the ground, and Lexi Thompson is on her toes at impact. So, it’s a foot to ground force and the golf swing takes linear force and creates circular motion.  Ground forces from the right leg and then the left leg, and the faster you can push up, the faster you can spin. Before this we had a two lever system with the left arm and shaft as the two levers; the longer the lever, the more potential energy in the club head. In nature, there is no really circular force that just exists. Have to have forces working on each other, high and low pressure acting on something that can create a circular force. Gary believes this manuscript is the “Holy Grail” of where power comes from in the golf swing. The model is exactly how Tiger was swinging the club in 2000. They are working with the author and will hopefully be coming out with the manuscript soon. I’ve seen it and it is unbelievable. Gary McCord can be reached through CBS Golf.

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I asked Mark about how he had the patience to endure not qualifying for the PGA Tour until 1983 and he said, “If you have a goal and something you want to do in life, and you have that passion that’s burning, sometimes you take the short cut and get there earlier and sometimes you don’t, but the deal is to get there, and I said I’m not going to stop until I get there, then I’ll figure some things out. There is no time limit. I was on a mission and it took longer to get to the show.” After Mark played the Tour in 1984 it was back to Tour School and he said he didn’t arrive with his “A” game. So, he went with his “Out Shot” which can be whatever, but you know where the ball is going and which way it’s curving. Mark said that in golf right now, he sees machines breaking down. Don’t see guys punching out and losing their stubbornness.

I asked Mark to tell a good Payne Stewart story and he said at the 1981 Spring Tour School, they were rooming together in Lake Buena Vista, Florida and staying on the top floor of the hotel about seven stories up. The rain started coming in with this “narly storm” as they were standing out on the balcony. All of a sudden there was a flash boom, that scared the crap out of Mark and he walked back into the room. Payne comes in and says, “Bud, if it’s your time to go then it’s your time to go.” Mark said yeah well I’m not going to push it. Payne walks back out on the balcony and there is another flash boom! Payne walks back in the room as says, “I think you’re right Wiebs, we don’t need to push it!” Mark said it was one of the few times that Payne agreed with him.

I asked Mark about his philosophies in teaching and he said that he doesn’t have a method when he teaches. There is a certain way that the club needs to work for each person and that is predicated on flexibility, build, grip pressure and several other things. Mark said he was passionate about working with kids who had aspirations for competing and getting a college scholarship. He could have a high  level of conversation with them, and kids have magic in their swings, if they are natural and have flow to it. Mark said he preaches that there is a natural way the body moves, and that’s the way you should swing for the rest of your lives. Mark Wiebe is a two-time winner on the PGA Tour and has five victories on the Champion’s Tour including the 2013 Senior British Open. You can reach Mark @Markwiebe33 on Twitter.

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