The acknowledgement comes after a string of wins on the amateur circuit, both Australian and international in recent years.

Now a member of the Long Reef Golf Club in Sydney, Brett won the NSW Amateur Championship earlier this year and has previously won amateur tournaments in South Australia and Queensland, the Avondale Amateur, the PNGA Amateur in the U.S and was also the captain of the winning Four Nations Cup team in Queenstown in October last year.

Born and raised in Inverell, Brett was also a talented cricketer in his teens, before making the decision to focus on golf.

Earlier this year he told the Inverell Times it was a hard decision, but ultimately the right one.

He relocated to Sydney after completing his HSC in 2008 and his career seems to have gone from strength to strength since.

The award was presented by John Tom from the Inverell Sports Council and as he was on a plane to Turkey at the time, was accepted by his parents, who are probably the proudest in Inverell at the moment.

“Proud as punch,” Michael said.

“We’ve watched him go from a seven-year-old to where he is now and he’s done it all himself.

“He’s been given the opportunities and he’s taken it from there.”

Michael said he had first seen Brett’s talent for the game around the age of 11, under the guidance of local professional Jamie Berry.

With the amount of time he spends travelling, Michael said Brett can be hard to communicate with, but has had a chance to speak to him since the awards.

“When John Tom told him about it, he was rapt.

“You don’t always think it means that much to younger guys, because they don’t want to show too much emotion, or they might be classed as big-heads.

“But I know he’s very humbled by it.

“Even though he’s moved away, he’ll always be associated with Inverell and the community has always given him great support.”

Brett is currently in Turkey and will play in the Scottish Stroke Play Championship next month.

He will spend the next couple of months playing in amateur competitions in the U.K and the U.S.

Earlier in the year he stated that he hopes to turn professional by the end of the year and will take every challenge as it comes.