DRIVERS’ STANDINGS
Toyne squeaks home for national title
A FORMER champion Tablelands golfer has snared a national golfing title.
Former Atherton champion Steve Toyne, 59, won the Australian Senior Match Play Championship with a tight win at Coolangatta Tweed Heads Golf Club last week.
“I’ve won some things in my life, but you can’t describe that feeling,” he said.
“Walking on to that 17th green, it’s all in my favour and things would have to go right for him to beat me, but still the emotion gets the you.”
Toyne, a 2009 FNQ champion and former Atherton Golf better of Club committee member, has won his share of golf events across three continents.
He won a prestigious junior event as a 17-year-old in his home country of South Africa and played county golf in England before moving to Australia in the 1980s.
Now a member at Indooroopilly Golf Club in Brisbane, Toyne said the recent victory was the “icing on the cake”.
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“But this is a national title – it really stands out above them all,” he said.
“I really did that well today. I stuck to my game and there’s a number of par-fours where you drive with a 3-wood and I ... never really missed the middle of the fairway all day.
“When you take that angst (of playing form the rough) out of the game, everything else falls into place.”