Littlestone Golf Club junior member Sophie Daws is in a rich vein of form right now.

Last Thursday, Daws, from Dymchurch, won the Kent Girls title at Rochester & Cobham GC. She fired rounds of 73 and 77 to finish on four-over-par 150, four shots in front of Jessica Gregory from the host club.

A fortnight earlier, the Marsh Academy student won the Kent County Ladies’ Golf Association Champion of Champions tournament at Sittingbourne GC.

Daws won the scratch prize with a 75, a performance which impressed the county selectors sufficiently for her to be picked to play for Kent Ladies in this week’s County Week at East Sussex National
GC.

But Daws, who celebrated her 17th birthday on Tuesday, had to miss the first two days of the competition because she was also taking the last of her four AS-Level examinations on Tuesday.

She said on Monday: "I got my first handicap four years ago and have been playing well in the last few weeks.

"I will be joining up with the Kent team on Wednesday (yesterday) after I have done my last exam."

Daws, who plays off a three handicap, comes from a real golfing family. Her 13-year-old brother Oliver already plays off four and their father, Steve, is in charge of the junior section at Littlestone GC.

Picture: Sophie Daws shows off the Kent Girls' Trophy she won at Rochester and Cobham