PLEASINGTON golfer Jack Brooks is celebrating one of his best tournament victories to date after reigning in Spain.

The 16-year-old topped a field of 36 of Britain's best young golfers to win the Daily Express U16 Andalucia Junior Open at the world-famous Valderrama course in Andalucia.

For Chorley-based Brooks, it capped a tremendous 2007 season in which he landed the Lancashire Boys Championship at Leyland, and Lancashire Schools Championship at Ashton-under-Lyne.

His round of 75 at Valderrama, home of the European Tour's Volvo Masters, was enough to edge out Leicestershire's Greg Eason by one shot, and came after scores of 72 and 73 in earlier rounds at the Heathland and Links course of Alcaidesa.

"It was a great experience at Valderrama," said Brooks, a former pupil at Blackburn's Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School.

"It was exciting standing on the first tee, knowing that so many great golfers had teed off there before me.

"It's definitely one of the best tournaments I've won because the course is on the European Tour. It's a great course."

Brooks, now studying his A-levels at Runshaw College, who is coached by Heswall professional Alan Thompson, is a member of England's U16 elite squad.

He won the English Boys U14 Championship in 2003, aged 12.