secured the Kent title<\/a> at Littlestone with victory against Wildernesse\u2019s former champion Danny Jones in the final and the golfer\u2019s good form continued on Monday, moving a step closer to The Open after progressing from regional qualifying.<\/p>\nMatos (Dartford Golf Club) birdied four of his final six holes to card a four-under 67 and was joined by two others at the top of the standings.<\/p>\n
Queenwood\u2019s Joshua Bristow and Royal Blackheath\u2019s Jacob Hassan were the leading qualifiers, along with Matos.<\/p>\n
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Jimmy Bullard was competing at the Rochester & Cobham Park Golf Course on Monday Picture: Barry Goodwin<\/p>\n
Five other players advanced, including Growing Golf Academy\u2019s Tom Sherreard (-3), Tonbridge Golf Centre\u2019s Todd Adcock (-2) and home golfer Justin Chenu.<\/p>\n
Zane Scotland (-3) – who played at The Open in Carnoustie as a teenager in 1999 – also qualified at Rochester & Cobham along with James Heard (Tee Box London).<\/p>\n
Top reserve was home player Jordan Godwin \u2013 a final qualifier in 2023 – who just missed out on a top-eight spot this year after shooting a one-under 70.<\/p>\n
Sene Valley\u2019s Finn Lord also finished his round on 70, finishing 24th on the reserve list.<\/p>\n
Jordan Godwin narrowly missed out on a qualifying place at his home course Picture: Barry GoodwinRichard Wallis (Canterbury) was among those at\u00a0Rochester & Cobham Park, with a round of 75 Picture: Barry Goodwin<\/p>\n
Former top-flight footballer Jimmy Bullard helped draw the crowds to the event and he finished tied-20th with a respectable one-over round of 72.<\/p>\n
At Chart Hills, seven places in Final Qualifying were available on the Nick Faldo-designed layout.<\/p>\n
There was a tense finish at the Biddenden club, which was added to the regional qualifying rota this year, where Max Moseley came through a play-off to make it through after being one of five players to finish on three-under.<\/p>\n
The Knole Park amateur joins Royal St George\u2019s Oliver Daws (-4), Rochester & Cobham\u2019s Luke Jenkins (-4) and Weald of Kent\u2019s Ryan Boyns (-4) in progressing to FQ.<\/p>\n
Xavier Hollands\u00a0(Faversham) carded a 10-over 81\u00a0Picture: Barry GoodwinRochester & Cobham Park golfer Paul Williams was 17-over for a score of 88\u00a0Picture: Barry Goodwin<\/p>\n
The leading two qualifiers were Americans, with Charles Huntzinger leading the way on seven-under 65, one shot ahead of Golf Club of Georgia’s Charlie Dubiel.<\/p>\n
San Diego Country Club\u2019s Adrian Soriano was one of four players to finish four under.<\/p>\n
In total, 124 players progressed to Final Qualifying which takes place across four venues on Tuesday, June 30, including Deal\u2019s Royal Cinque Ports where places in The 154th Open will be up for grabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently crowned Kent Men’s Amateur champion Haiden Matos continued his impressive form by securing a place in Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8834,220045,8835,216166,220046,5904,109339,220047,19488,220048,220049,101,220050,56,54,55,109340],"class_list":["post-654861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-all-kent-sport","tag-ashford-sport","tag-canterbury-sport","tag-dartford-sport","tag-deal-sport","tag-golf","tag-malling-sport","tag-medway-sport","tag-other-sport","tag-sandwich-sport","tag-sevenoaks-sport","tag-sports","tag-tonbridge-sport","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-weald-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}