Cornish golfer Emily Toy has come up trumps on her first trip Down Under – winning the women’s New South Wales 36-hole championship.

Emily, from Longdowns, was four-under for the two rounds, finishing a shot clear of her closest rivals, and leads the 16 qualifiers for the match play championship.

Toy, who plays at Carlyon Bay Golf Club, is one of six players – along with Cara Gainer, Bailey Gill, David Hague, Ben Jones and Tom Sloman – representing England in a month-long tour of Australia, playing in a total of four events.

The event in New South Wales was the third of the four, with Toy having began the tour with a tied 16th finish in the women’s Australian Master of the Amateurs at Royal Melbourne, finishing 18 strokes off the lead in the 72-hole event.

She followed that up with a tied 15th finish in the Australian Amateur at Woodland and Spring Valley golf clubs, finishing just six strokes off the lead with a score of one-under par.

She then moved on to the event in New South Wales on Monday, finishing the first day of competition in eighth spot after scoring a one-under par round of 71 at the Terrey Hills Golf & Country Club with four birdies along the way.

But she scored a superb three-under par 72 at Mona Vale yesterday to win by a shot from first-round leader Min A Yoon of South Korea and New Zealand’s Carmen Lim.

Toy’s compatriot Cara Gainer was just two shots behind her and tied fourth in the championship.

Toy and Gainer are the first women to represent England on the annual month-long tour in Australia.

Toy will now turn her focus to the match play championship, before competing in the Avondale Amateur next week, which is the final event of the tour.