The 20-year-old wants to win some national order-of-merit events before he contemplates the big step.
He wasn't perturbed about bequeathing the $5700 purse to runners-up, professionals Hamish Robertson and Grant Moorhead.
"I didn't mind about not getting the money," he said after winning by one shot with a 12-under-par total. "I'm happy to bring home another trophy to sit over the fireplace."
The amateurs are supposed to make up the numbers in these events.He got a brief experience of the life of a pro with a string of interviews afterwards.
Yesterday's was one of the great efforts by a Manawatu amateur, leading after all four rounds. He became only the fourth amateur to win a Charles Tour event following Nationwide Tour pro Josh Geary and New Zealand's No 1 amateur, Ben Campbell (Masterton) who won at Tauranga, and Troy Ropiha at Taranaki.
Munn set it up with his miraculous course-record 63 at a links course he'd never seen. "In that first round every putt went in. I reckon if I'd closed my eyes they would've gone in."
No one would have blamed him had he crumbled under the pressure of the fourth round.It's a hilly coastal course and Munn admitted he felt himself tiring late in the third round.
His father, Steve, drove through the night from Palmerston North to caddie for him yesterday, slept in the Muriwai Golf Club car park, and his presence helped.
But Josh was playing alongside Australasian Tour pro Robertson, also a former Manawatu member who is to be married in Queensland in August, and hardened Asian Tour player Richard Lee. Robertson nailed a five-metre putt on the 16th to share the lead with Moorhead and Munn at 12 under.
In his younger days that pressure would probably have got to him.
"I reckon I've matured a bit since then. The idea was to stay calm, even if you get a bit of bad luck.
"I knew I had the skill to do it. It was a matter of getting it done. I missed a few putts on the back nine and didn't worry about it."
When Robertson and Moorhead bogeyed the 17th, Munn strode up the 18th and won the tournament with a par after rounds of 63, 68, 71, 74.
He'd won a tight one down the stretch against Tyler Hodge in the LawnMaster Classic at Manawatu in February
Yesterday he also had to contend with rain and 40kmh winds, but Manawatu players are accustomed to breezes.
A call overnight to his coach, Andre White, also paid dividends. White told him to take it one shot at a time, "to love being scared rather than fear it might not work." White said it was a huge feat for the shy young guy.Munn said Robertson supported him too, telling him that if he didn't win, he wanted the youngster to do it.
"He was encouraging me the whole week."
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