Turton are celebrating the greatest achievement in their century-long history after winning the Volvo National Golf Club Challenge men’s title at Turnberry.

The two-day event brought together the four best men’s and ladies’ teams from qualifying events held throughout the UK in June earlier this year.

As well as winning a golfing holiday to Greece, Turton’s players were also presented with the prestigious Lee Westwood Cup.

Turton captain Adam Bullough said: “Turton Golf Club felt extremely privileged to have even reached the final of such a prestigious and worthy event.

“So for us to then go on and win the Lee Westwood Cup makes us feel very proud indeed. This is by some distance the most significant golfing achievement in our club’s 103-year history.”

Turton won with 192 points, one ahead of The Players Club, with Robin Hood Golf Club third with 176 and Guilford Golf Club fourth with 141.

Making it through to the finals was dependant upon teams’ performances in qualification and how much money they had raised for the Help the Heroes charity.

They raised an outstanding £7,500 for their donation from competition entry fees, social events, donations made on their Captains Day and an auction of various sporting items and memorabilia.

Turton’s top 10 scores in qualification, added to the amount of money raised by the club gave them a qualification to the final in fourth place nationally.

The scoring in the final last week was via a stableford competition with the seven best scores out of 10 counting in the final round.

The stableford points of the top seven Turton scorers on the final day were: Adam Bullough 31 pts; Andrew Hurst 31pts; Mark Rothwell 30 pts; John Drabble 26pts; Steve Gallagher 25 pts; Scott Woods 25 pts; and Paul Greenhalgh 24 pts. Non scoring players were: Graham Hill, Joe Holland and John O’Hara.

The trophy will be presented by Lee Westwood in December.