Knole Park's eighth Amateur Foursomes, and two Canterbury names atop the Orders of Merit (3 October 2026)
The county season has wrapped up. Seven knockout finals were played at Langley Park, the Orders of Merit closed at Lamberhurst, and Kent's senior women missed a Ten Counties title by a single shot. Two Sevenoaks clubs, Knole Park and Wildernesse, came home with silverware.
Knole Park take the Amateur Foursomes for an eighth time
Langley Park Golf Club hosted the finals of seven Kent Golf knockouts on Saturday, reported on 27 September. The Amateur Foursomes, played for the 71st time, was decided on aggregate over two scratch matches between Knole Park and Cherry Lodge. Jordan Hicks and Ben Sands halved their match with George Pickett and Gareth Holvey, and Sam Statham and Sam Crowther went from 3 up after six to a 7 up win over Chris Witts and Dave Norman. It is the eighth time Knole Park have won the trophy.
Wildernesse won the Senior Foursomes 10 up on aggregate against Chislehurst, with John Spurling and Toby Shannon winning their match by 9. Chislehurst still had a strong day: their juniors beat Sidcup in the Junior Foursomes, winning the two handicap matches 5 up and 10 up, and their mixed pairs won both games 2 up against Wrotham Heath in the Captains' Cup.
David Walters of Eltham Warren, runner-up last year, won the Eric Green singles 2&1 against Robert Brack of Gillingham. Eltham Warren also took Top Club, 6 up on aggregate against Dartford after Jamie Todd and Dave Hattersley won their match 11 up. The new Peter Long Memorial Trophy, a mixed fourball betterball that started the year with 52 pairs, went to Paul McAllister and Lynne Roberts of Redlibbets, who were dormie 3 up on Dawn and Dean Sullivan of Sundridge Park after 15 and closed it out.
Source: Kent Golf, 27 September 2026.
Orders of Merit: Canterbury on top of both tables
The 2026 Orders of Merit finished with the Teise Trophy at Lamberhurst on Sunday 27 September, reported on 29 September. The event was open to women this year, and Ali Ord of Canterbury won the first Women's Order of Merit on 63 points, ahead of Lena Sharp (Nizels) on 22 and Selina Bartarya (Royal Blackheath) in third.
Another Canterbury player, Michael Vandenberg, won the men's table on 158 points, having taken maximum points four times, at the Prince of Wales, Pilgrim's Plate, Kent Cob and Bishops Bowl. Nick Panting of Rochester and Cobham was second on 116, with last year's winner Liam Burns (Chislehurst) third on 109. Kent Golf says 195 different players featured on the men's table this year, up from 162 in 2025.
Source: Kent Golf, 29 September 2026.
Senior women miss the Ten Counties title by one shot
Kent's senior women finished third in the Senior Women's Inter-County Team Championship, the Ten Counties, at Weybrook Park in Hampshire on Monday 21 September. Teams of four play scratch strokeplay with the best three scores counting. Tita McCart (Sundridge Park) shot 77, Kim Morris (Sundridge Park) 78 and Debbie Cox (Canterbury) 83, for 238 against a par of 73, with Sue Trasler (Knole Park) the fourth player.
Sussex won on 237. Hampshire also had 237 but lost on the tiebreak of the fourth score. McCart's 77 was the joint best round of the day, level with Surrey's England international Julia Brook and Hampshire's Karen Sykes.
Source: Kent Golf, 24 September 2026.
A hole-in-one at 92 at Chislehurst
John Paddle, 92, holed in one at the 5th at Chislehurst Golf Club from the yellow tees on Monday 28 September, during the club veterans' annual "Overs v Unders" fourball match. Kent Golf, reporting it on 1 October, says it was his fifth hole-in-one and his second at Chislehurst. The dividing age this year was 72, and Paddle captained the over-72s, who won 5½ to 1½.
Source: Kent Golf, 1 October 2026.
Also this week
- Women's and girls' knockouts finals at Wrotham Heath (reported 22 September): Valya Scott won the Millstede Trophy 5&4, Canterbury's Sanjana Gullipalli and Alex Ord kept the Lohan Trophy 2&1, and Lynn Orrin (North Foreland) won the Three Feathers Silver on the second extra hole. Kent Golf.
- At Mid Kent, Eileen Bryce and Gillian Oxbrow (Royal Blackheath) won the Coombe Cup 4&2, and Sene Valley beat Sidcup in the Tappin Trophy after Claire Gallagher won on the 20th. Kent Golf, 22 September 2026.
- A Junior Disability Golf Academy for ages 8 to 18 starts at Stonelees Golf Centre, Ramsgate, on Saturday 10 October: six Saturday sessions to February, 11.30am to 12.30pm, £60 in total. Kent Golf, 27 September 2026.
- Previous roundup: Shooters Hill win the Kent Veterans Champion Club (12 September 2026).