Kentish Gazette Canterbury & District
Skye’s the limit for winner Fontanelli
Faversham’s Skye Fontanelli won the girls’ Kent Schools’ Golf Championship at Prince’s Golf Club on Tuesday, while Canterbury’s third-placed Claudia Carlotti (pictured) won the under-16s girls’ Stableford first prize. Twelve-year-old Kent College pupil Fontanelli scored a birdie at the 14th, nine pars, five bogeys and two doubles in a gross 85 to win the girls’ championship by four shots. Rochester and Cobham’s Keiki Chapman, of Goudhurst’s Bethany School, finished in second with a gross 89, to beat Carlotti on countback. Chapman won the under-12 girls’ net Stableford prize. Fontanelli said: “It got better as the round went on. I was working on my putting and it definitely paid off.
“I was really pleased to win, we got a day off school and I was really happy with the way it turned out.
“It was a really fun and enjoyable day.”
Lee Carew, of the Harris Academy and Chelsfield Lakes in Orpington, shot a twounder-par 70 with an eagle at the third, two birdies and two bogeys to win the boys’ championship. Carlotti, a 15-year-old student at Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School, scored birdies at the 17th and 18th to win the under-16 girls’ net Stableford, scoring 41
Stableford points from five pars, seven bogeys, three doubles and her double birdie finale.
She said: “Considering it was fairly windy and cold and I had my Covid vaccine the night before, I didn’t expect an amazing score but I scored 41 even with four lost balls.” On the par 4 17th, big-hitting Carlotti hit her drive 265 yards to the fringe of the green, played a bump and ran it to three feet and sank the putt. She added: “And on the next hole I hit an okay drive, I had 100 yards in so I hit a wedge and holed the putt from eight feet, so that was two birdies for eight points each. I’m really happy that I won.” Fontanelli and Carlotti have now both qualified for the South of England Schools’ Golf Championship at Canterbury on Tuesday, May 31.