Canterbury Golf Club member John Coupe is the new Kent Seniors champion.

A field of 42 competitors aged 55 or over took part in the 36-hole championship at Faversham GC on Wednesday and Thursday and Coupe, whose plus-one handicap made him the lowest handicapper in the field, showed his quality with rounds of 69 and 73 for a two-over-par total of 142.

That left him four shots clear of the joint runners-up, Richard Partridge (The Wildernesse)  and Richard Punyer (Chestfield).