'Sophisticated elegance' was the remit for the £8m Twenty Ten clubhouse at Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, which will be hosting the 2010 Ryder Cup and is home to leading European Tour event The Wales Open.

Decorated throughout to reflect the comfort and ambience associated with a 1930's gentleman's club, the Twenty Ten clubhouse has luxurious carpets, a strong influence of brass throughout and stylish sepia photographs of golfing greats including Ben Hogan and Arnold Palmer.

Craftsman Quality Lockers was one of five companies invited to tender for the contract to provide lockers that would be in keeping with the style and atmosphere of a venue purpose-built to host such a prestigious event as the 2010 Ryder Cup.

The company proposed 160 solid oak lockers, each fitted with an ASSA card lock with a bespoke, polished and lacquered brass cylinder supplied by high performance lock and access control supplier Abloy UK, with whom Craftsman have worked on locker security for nearly 20 years.

However, Craftsman's involvement extended well beyond locker provision to embrace design elements including the grouping of lockers into discrete areas so that corporate groups - for example - can enjoy heightened privacy, vanity 'islands' and bevelled wooden frames for the sepia images.

Celtic Manor's Vice President of Facilities and Development, Russell Phillips, commented: "Craftsman’s solution really stood out and recognised completely the functional and aesthetic aspects of our brief. The solid oak construction of the lockers and their brass fittings are completely in keeping with the quality and style that flows through the whole Twenty Ten experience."

Each of the 160 solid oak lockers is secured by a high-performance, brass finish ASSA card lock, which has been fitted so that when the locker is in use a specially-designed Celtic Manor Twenty Ten card - rather than a coin - can be placed on the inside of the door to allow removal of the locker’s brass key.

The number of lockers was governed by the size of a European Tour field, with the 2008 Wales Open scheduled to be played on the new Twenty Ten course between May 29 and June 1.

In terms of size, the lockers are large enough to store a golf bag and also suitable for hanging a smart change of clothes such as a suit or a team blazer and trousers.

Opened in November 2007, the Twenty Ten clubhouse changing rooms incorporate a host of innovative features. The design allows a partition wall to be erected in the middle, which will be done immediately before the 2010 Ryder Cup.

This will ensure that the American and European teams have exactly the same size and specification of changing room!