Today’s Golfer travel awards: The Celtic Manor Resort tops the best golf course and best hotel/resort category in Wales
The Celtic Manor Resort received the awards of being the best golf course and best hotel/resort in the Wales region, announced earlier in the inaugural Today’s Golfer travel awards.
It is the same course that hosted the 2010 edition of the Ryder Cup and was then named as Europe’s Golf Resort of the Year for 2011 and the UK’s Sport Venue of the Year.
It was awarded with all these accolades because of its state-of-the-art facilities available at the course and the resort as well.
Later on, the prestigious Reader’s Digest also recognized Celtic Manor as the best UK golf club in the Club Mirror awards.
Therefore, the award from the Today’s Golfer travel awards for best golf course and best hotel/resort was an addition to the fame that it had gained in the last two years.
“It’s always pleasing to win awards but it’s particularly satisfying that these awards have been voted for by readers,” Matthew Lewis, Celtic Manor Director of Golf and Leisure said.
“We enjoyed a record year for numbers of visiting golfers in 2011 and the fact they have chosen us for these accolades is the finest endorsement we can get, particularly when you look at the quality of the other clubs and venues in the running,” he added.
Overall, the Celtic Manor outclassed each and every golf club and resort in the region in both the categories.
There was not a single resort that could have managed to come close to it in terms of total votes casted.
According to the UK’s best selling golf magazine, the Celtic Manor received 53 per cent of the votes casted against best golf course category. It was a huge margin over the Links courses at Royal Porthcawl, with 15 per cent votes to stand second.
In addition to that, it received a huge number of votes in the best hotel/resort category - 80 per cent. The Marriott St Pierre stood second with only 11 percent votes.
For that reason, one can say that the Celtic Manor Resort is the most prestigious and well known golf course in South Wales and will be a hot spot for many of the international golf tournaments in the near future.
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