An impressive display on the greens helped 16-year-old Keighley Golf Club member Calum Hey become what is thought to be the youngest ever player to win the Bradford Open.

Hey three-putted just once in 36 holes to clinch the title at Cleckheaton on four-under par, one clear of Bingley St Ives’ Oliver Young and two ahead of host club player Nigel Colbeck.

The South Craven School pupil, who will begin his A-levels next month, overcame a field featuring several professionals – including Andrew Rhodes, the last Keighley player to win the Open in 2002 at Bradford – and a host of more experienced amateurs.

Hey’s victory at just 16 makes him a younger champion than ten-time winner Rodney Foster, who claimed his first crown at Ilkley in 1960, aged 18.

After carving out a four-under par second-round 66 to follow up his opening-round 70, the teenager said: “I putted really well and didn’t put myself in any trouble.

“My putting saves me all the time and was why I was able to shoot 66.”

Helped by a relaxed atmosphere playing alongside fellow Bradford Union team-mate Jamie Mountain and professional Paul Humpherson, Hey refused to let the big occasion get to him.

In fact, Hey joked afterwards: “The hardest part of the day was doing the speech afterwards. That was pretty nerve-wracking!”

His 66 included six birdies, which came at the fourth, fifth and eighth, in a front nine of 34, and at the 11th, 13th and 16th, coming back in 32.

Hey chose his moments wisely on Cleckheaton’s risk-and-reward course.

He opted against going for the green at the short ninth, settling for a par four, but took the pond on successfully just before the 11th green to set up a birdie four.

“That was a defining hole for me,” said Hey, who lives nearby his home course in Utley. “I hit a really good drive and then a two-iron over the water to be pin high for a two-putt birdie.”

The Yorkshire junior follows in the footsteps of some prestigious players from Keighley Golf Club to have won the trophy, including Richard Emery, Phil Wood, Roger Mitchell and Mike Bradley.

He said: “I’m honoured to have joined an elite group of players.

“I’ve had a lot of messages congratulating me and things on Twitter, which is really nice.

“I’ve been in good form leading up to the tournament. I’ve had a few second places, including in the Oakdale Acorn recently, but I thought it was about time I won something!

“In the Carris Trophy (English Boys’ Under-18 Open), I three-putted the last to miss the cut so I really wanted to make up for that.”

Hey also won the Jim Wade Trophy, for the best combined score in the Open and Bradford Amateur Championship, and the Sydney Carr Trophy for finishing top amateur.

He succeeds 2012 champion Will Whiteoak, of Bingley St Ives, who was unable to defend his crown due to his involvement in the English Amateur Championship at Frilford Heath.

Hey said: “I’m good mates with Will and it has helped my game playing with him. He texted me the night before saying I’d better win it!”

Whiteoak missed out on the matchplay stages at Frilford after rounds of 75, 72.

Bradford Open (at Cleckheaton) top ten: 1 Calum Hey (Keighley) (70, 66) 136; 2 Oliver Young (Bingley St Ives) (70, 67) 137; 3 Nigel Colbeck (Cleckheaton) (71, 67) 138; 4 Chris Green (Cleckheaton) (72, 68) 140; 5 R Nesbit (Colne) (69, 71) 140; 6 Jamie Mountain (Shipley) (68, 72) 140; 7 Matthew Atter (Woodhall Hills) (72, 69) 141; 8 Daniel Hall (Cleckheaton) (70, 71) 141; 9 H Tetley (Bingley St Ives) (72, 70) 142; 10 Andy Town (Bingley St Ives) (70, 72) 142.