The Vale Hotel, Golf and Spa Resort

The Vale Resort Golf Club has celebrated its most successful season ever – with a haul of trophies that includes a unique Grand Slam of domestic competition titles.

The club, based at the Vale Hotel, Golf & Spa Resort, has six teams competing at different levels – the first and second teams, the ladies first team, junior team, Halletts and Wayfarers handicap teams – and each of them completed the season winning their respective leagues.

The club also produced a crop of individual winners, too, in tournaments across the UK to provide the club with the fullest trophy cabinet in its history.

The Men's team successes included: Victory Shield Winners Zac Gould and Jan Williams, Premier Division winners, League 3A winners plus promotion, and the Inter County Champion of Champions.

The Ladies recorded successes as Welsh Team Champions, 1^st Team league winners and gaining promotion, 2^nd Team league winners with promotion, Australian Spoons winners with Rusty Fone and Clair Dunstone, and Rhian Wyn Thomas, Anna Carling and Sahra Hassan all representing Wales in the Ladies Seniors team. One of the club's rising young stars, Anna Carling, also played in the Junior Welsh Home International as well as the European Championships.

The Juniors enjoyed a record-breaking season with Delon Hau winning the Garnant Park Junior Open. Tom Harry captured the Under 14 Bath Junior Open and the Under 13s Junior Welsh Open, he was 6^th in the Junior World Championships Under-9s tournament at Pinehurst. Lewis Bishop won the Men's Silver Division Championship, Anna Carling came runner-up in the Welsh Girls' Championship, while the club's Junior Team remained unbeaten in the league all season.

Rhys Pugh, 14, who represented Wales at Under-16 level, became the youngest person to win a senior Glamorgan event this year. He was also selected for the Glamorgan Under-18 team, won the Clwyd Amateur Championship, the South Wales Boys' Under-15 Championship, the Junior Welsh Open Under-15 title, qualified for the Faldo Series Final and helped Glamorgan Under-18s to win the Channel League Final.

Rhys also secured a memorable victory in the Reid Trophy – the English Under-14 Open Championship, emulating the Vale's Zach Gould who won the same trophy in 2002.

But while the club is celebrating the end of its most successful season to date, it is also looking forward to even greater successes in the future. Clive Coombs, Head Professional & Operations Manager (Golf) at the Vale Hotel, Golf & Spa Resort, said: For all of our six teams to win their respective leagues is a first for us and we are very proud of that achievement.

“Without doubt we have just completed our most successful season to date and credit for that must go to all our 800-plus members. They have worked very hard and have all played a part in making the future so bright for this club.

“The development of our younger players is very important to us. We throw a lot of energies into it and I believe we are now starting to reap the rewards of all that hard work.

“We are throwing real top quality coaching at the grassroots level via the Vale Golf Academy and that coaching is now bearing fruit. This is one of the finest coaching establishments in the UK, not just because of the coaching talent we have here but the facilities available to them and the players.

“The proof of all this, of course, is in the standard of golf being delivered out of the Vale – and that can be judged on the club's achievements and its trophy cabinet, which has never been as full.”