Received award in 1999

Toni Guest, because of her consistent cheerfulness and endearing personality, is one of the most popular persons in Utah golf. Because of the love she has engendered from her fellow golfers, and because of her significant contributions to Utah golf, she is the recipient of the UGA's highest honor, the UGA Gold Club Award.

As the Office Manager of the Utah Golf Association for the past 15 years she has been a key behind-the-scenes coordinator of many Utah golfing activities. She started working at the UGA in 1984 and has held key responsibilities in managing the affairs of the UGA ever since. During her span of employment she has helped the UGA grow from 14,000 members to over 30,000. She is the most senior employee of the UGA and has worked with three executive directors.

Because of her excellent relationships with golfers and golf professionals she has been the eyes and ears of the UGA. Her advice and counsel has been invaluable and has been instrumental in shaping UGA policies and procedures. She has supervised the bi-monthly UGA mailings to all the golf courses and has stayed late many nights and made many special deliveries of handicap reports to anxious golf professionals. She has taken it as a personal challenge to see that the reports are out on time, every time.

She manages the UGA office with utmost courtesy, and always with a cheerful smile. For many years she has been the first telephone contact with almost all UGA callers. In most instances she answers the questions and solves the problems immediately without passing the call onto anyone else. She recognizes hundreds of golfers by voice recognition alone.

Toni has also become an avid, if not addicted, golfer. She started golfing at the age of 25 at Mountain View, and since then has played almost every Utah golf course. She has always held an active membership in a nine-hole league, most often at Forest Dale. She has never come close to conquering the game, but passionately searches for the secret. Her golfing friends are her best buddies.

In addition to her UGA achievements she has been a generous volunteer for other golfing organizations. She has been an official in the scoring tents in every Hogan and Nike Tour event held in Utah, as well as all the PGA Senior Tour events, and for the last 15 years has helped at the Utah Open. She has also been a volunteer course rater and has rated dozens of Utah courses for the ladies.

The only thing in her life that supercedes golf is her family. Her three children, Jami, Curtis, and Greg, are the loves of her life, along with her six grandchildren. She has also remained very close to her sisters, Chree and Dee, and her mother, Thail Olson. She idolized her dad, Jim Landures, who passed away in 1989.