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Canterbury Golf Club champion Josh Bristow showed his class to win the Henry Knight Salver medal competition.
He won Sunday's event with a stunning four under par 67, despite a double bogey on the par four third, from a field of 102.
But the performance of the day came from 15-year-old, six handicap schoolboy Harry Fagg, who shot his best competition round at Canterbury, a level par gross 71, to win the net competition Brook Rose Bowl.
Harry's net 65 won by a shot from James Shore (h16) who spoiled his chances of victory with double bogeys at the 13th and 16th but took second place by two shots from Richard Askham, who edged James Lambton (20) into fourth place on count back.
Harry's gross 71 was also good enough for third place in the Henry Knight Salver, just a shot behind second placed one handicap Levi Johnson, who had eight birdies in a one under par 70, but also racked up four bogeys and a triple at the 6th, where he hit his second shot left into thick rough.
Plus three player Bristow got off to a flier with a birdie at the 1st and, despite his double at the 3rd was two under at the turn, with birdies at the 4th, 5th and 7th for 34 and two more birdies on the back nine saw him home in 67.
He said: '' I've come second in this event the last three years so I'm pleased to win it finally. I played solid today despite the double at three, when I lost my drive right, into the trees.
''I'm not feeling on top form, I had a lot of birdie chances and could easily have been six under at the turn. The back nine was just solid.''
But Bristow is hoping there's plenty more silverware to come adding: "I've got the English Amateur Championships at the end of the month at Woodhall Spa, the Brabazon Trophy at Sherwood Forest in mid-August and I'm hoping, at the end of August, to play in the British Amateur at Royal Birkdale."
Fagg said: "It was my best competition round at Canterbury and obviouslv I'm very happy about that. I've been working hard on my game all through lockdown and everything sort of fell into place today.
"My chipping is usually one of the worst parts of my game but today I was chipping eveything inside three feet. It feels good, after winning four competitions last year, to back it up this year."
He is also hoping for a place on the British Junior Golf Tour next year and will play in three of its' Order of Merit one-day events in Wales over the August Bank Holiday.