by Andrew Griffin | Sep 28, 2024 | Channel Islands, County Sevens, Hampshire, News
ROYAL Jersey are eyeing the chance of claiming a fourth County Sevens crown this weekend, to become one of the five most successful clubs in Hampshire Golf’s Inter-Club Knockout. After a stunning comeback to knockout L’Ancresse after travelling to Guernsey for the...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 26, 2024 | Channel Islands, County Sevens, Hampshire, News
ROYAL Jersey are eyeing the chance of claiming a fourth County Sevens crown this weekend, to become one of the five most successful clubs in Hampshire Golf’s Inter-Club Knockout. After a stunning comeback to knockout L’Ancresse after travelling to Guernsey for the...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 19, 2024 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE captain Lawrence Cherry has called up former England U16 international George Saunders (above) for the annual match against the Channel Islands, at Hayling GC, at Sunday. The warm-up match – played over two days – will give Cherry a chance to check on a...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 26, 2023 | Boys, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S Future Champions Tour has been dubbed a great success by the county’s junior organisers who are keen to grow the grassroots game – and hopefully find the next Justin Rose for good measure. A series of events for players aged U12 – both...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 10, 2023 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News, Uncategorized
FIVE past champions who have claimed the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup made it through to the quarter-finals of the 118th Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship, at Hockley GC, on Saturday. That stat had Hampshire Golf officials looking...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 9, 2023 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
THE race to be crowned the 118th Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Champion begins today (Friday) at Hockley – the scene of one of the championship’s most remarkable finals thanks to Martin Young. Hockley, set high up on Twyford Down overlooking the...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 1, 2023 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News, Seniors
STONEHAM’S James Pinchon claimed his first Hampshire Seniors title coming back from two shots behind with a round to play, to overhaul halfway leader Dave Edmunds, at Tylney Park, on Wednesday. Pinchon shot a round of 79 – only bettered by clubmate Alan Mew, who...
by Andrew Griffin | May 30, 2023 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News, Seniors
LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT’s Dave Edmunds has a two-shot lead going into the second round of the Hampshire Seniors Championship at Tylney Park. A regular member of Hampshire’s Seniors team since helping his club to the final of the County Sevens four years ago, Edmunds has...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 24, 2023 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE captain Lawrence Cherry’s faith in introducing new blood into the county first-team was rewarded with a one-point victory over the Channel Islands, on Sunday. The youngest captain in Hampshire Golf’s post-war history included himself for the trip to Royal...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 21, 2023 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S youngest captain in more than 75 years will send his first team out into action against the Channel Islands at Royal Jersey, on Saturday. Stoneham’s 26-year-old Lawrence Cherry, who took over from Neil Dawson back in February, will blood three debutants in...
by Andrew Griffin | Nov 1, 2022 | Boys, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S crop of elite junior players have just returned from their first overseas training trip, having enjoyed three days‘ intense competition in Portugal. At the end of his first season in charge of the U18 and U16 squads Hampshire Golf junior manager Dave...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 26, 2022 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
BRAMSHOTT Hill proved it’s quality not quantity that counts as one of the minnows of Hampshire Golf came out on top with their first County Sevens title since 1981. And the club based at the Dibden Golf Centre on the edge of the New Forest, survived a tense day to see...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 24, 2022 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S County Sevens trophy has only headed across the English Channel back to Jersey five times in its 56-year history. And predictably, those victories have been shared between Jersey’s giants when it comes to golf clubs – Royal Jersey with three wins to La...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 1, 2022 | Boys, Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
ROWLANDS Castle’s James Plater became just the third player to land the Hampshire U16s crown back-to-back – matching the feat first achieved by European Tour ace Jack Singh-Brar. But only a badly plugged ball in a greenside bunker on the 17th hole prevented the...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 1, 2022 | Boys, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
ROYAL Guernsey’s Ollie Chedhomme became just the third Channel Islander to win the Hampshire Junior Championship in 72 years at Lee-on-the-Solent GC. And 44 years after Peter Wilcox became the first Guernsey junior to win the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel...
by Andrew Griffin | May 26, 2022 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
STONEHAM’S Ryan Henley has a very big chance to make some Hampshire Golf history and join a very exclusive club this weekend. For the three-time winner of the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup can become one of just five players to have won the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 29, 2021 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
CAMS Hall overcame a selection crisis to land the prestigious County Sevens title, beating mighty Stoneham in the final at Bramshaw Golf Club, on Sunday. As Europe’s Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington was sending out his battered golfers for the Sunday singles at...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 6, 2021 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, News
THE race to be crowned Hampshire Golf’s Order of Merit winner moves up a gear with three events being played in three days – including today’s Portsmouth Open. The latter is being held at Crookhorn GC, but most of Hampshire’s big guns will be heading to Brokenhurst...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 7, 2021 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
LA MOYE’S Jo Hacker became just the seventh Jersey player to win the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship, at North Hants GC, the home of Olympic Champion Justin Rose. The Jacksonville Dolphins golfer based at Sawgrass, the home of the PGA...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 3, 2021 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
FOUR Jersey players – including two-time Jersey junior champion Jo Hacker – will fly the flag for the Channel Islands at this weekend’s county championship. Last year was the 115th Hampshire Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship – and one of a small...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 2, 2021 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, News
PICTURED: North Hants Charlie Forster, the new South West Schools Champion who makes his county championship debut at his home club North Hants on Friday. THE one big title that eluded Justin Rose’s meteoric rise to the top was the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel...
