About Manuel de la Torre

Manuel de la Torre (1921 – 2016) is a World Golf Teachers and PGA of America Hall of Fame Member. The first year the PGA of America gave a National Teacher of the Year Award (1986) it was given to Manuel de la Torre. Manuel became a legendary teacher influencing many famous teachers with the numerous seminars he conducted for the PGA, NGF and many other groups.

Manuel, never one to promote himself, was always content to help the average golfer at Milwaukee C. C., which he did for 65 years, but he did manage also to work with many PGA and LPGA Tour Major Winners such as Carol Mann, Martha Nause, Sherri Steinhauer and Tommy Aaron. Manuel learned to teach from his father, Angel de la Torre, who won the Spanish Open a record 5 times before he relocated his young family permanently to the U.S.A. in 1936 due to the Spanish Civil War that broke out that year. Ernest Jones, who wrote, Swing the Clubhead, was a family friend of the de la Torre’s and, as a young boy, Manuel heard his Dad and Ernest Jones discuss the golf swing for many hours.