YOUNG Toby Janes has left adult members at the Kendleshire Golf Club happily stunned by winning the Men’s Senior Medal tournament there - at just ten years of age.

And the Yate youngster has his eyes on a career as a professional with the Augusta Masters in his sights.

Dad Scott said he was immensely proud of his son’s achievement in taking the Kendleshire club’s Men’s Senior Medal title which now means he will take part in the competition’s Grand Final which will see him mix with other club winners at Minchinhampton Golf Club on July 6.

Toby, who has a handicap of 16.2, shot a ten over par gross round of 81 which, when his handicap was taken off, meant he topped the leaderboard with a nett 62.

Scott said: “He has been playing since he was three years of age and he is in the county junior under-14 team.”

Indeed, of the ten players in that county squad, Toby has the lowest handicap of all.

And Toby has become something of a name around the Kendleshire club, particularly as his remarkable feat in the men’s senior medal saw him beat 144 other players.

Scott added: “This is the first adult competition that he has played in. He began when he watched it on TV and has played since he could swing a club.

“He practices every day after school for three or four hours and then, at weekends, he is up there (at the Kendleshire) all day from 11am.”

Toby has been under the wing of the Kendleshire Golf Club’s junior section which is headed by Junior Organiser Dawn Ward. Scott praised Ward and her colleagues saying: “They have been fantastic.”

The only part of Toby’s game that is holding him back at present, said Scott, is the distance he can hit the ball.

However, Toby is already smashing drives over two hundred yards, which is further than many adults can achieve, with his father adding: “You have to see it to believe it.”

As for the future, Scott said Toby wants to become a professional player. “He has said he will win four Masters and six other titles,” added Scott.

So it may well be worth staking a pound on him joining the great champions like Tiger Woods who have taken the Green Jacket at Augusta in 15 or twenty years time!