by Andrew Griffin | May 13, 2025 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
JAMES Knight turned back the clock to the days when he stood toe-to-toe with the likes Luke Donald and Justin Rose as England’s two finest amateur talents, to claim his first Hampshire Order of Merit victory, in the Delhi Cup at Hockley. The Sandford Springs club...
by Andrew Griffin | May 13, 2025 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
DELHI Cup winner James Knight sent out a stark reminder that there is another mid-amateur capable of stepping into the Hampshire first-team, after county captain Toby Burden lost two of his rising college graduates to the pro ranks. Having been recalled to the...
by Andrew Griffin | May 1, 2025 | England, Hampshire, International, News
BASINGSTOKE’S Charlie Forster has been selected for the international team that will face America in next month’s Arnold Palmer Cup, the biggest team event in US college golf. The in-form Long Beach State student is bidding to become the first Hampshire player to...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 10, 2025 | England, Hampshire, National, News
SAM Parsons will bid to become just the second Blackmoor player to win the East Hampshire club’s Selborne Salver in 50 years, when the county’s domestic golf season gets under way on Friday. It is 30 years since Justin Rose staked his claim as a golf star of the...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 10, 2025 | England, Hampshire, National, News
SELBORNE Salver organiser Mike Cave has paid tribute to Peter McEvoy, the first ever winner of the Hampshire Salver, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 72. McEvoy is also the only player to have won the Selborne Salver twice in its 50-year history and...
by Andrew Griffin | Mar 27, 2025 | Awards, England, Hampshire, International, News
CHARLIE Forster’s father Lance is convinced his son is on the right track to reach the pinnacle of amateur golf – an appearance in the Walker Cup. Having been a late-starter comparatively – only taking up golf seriously in his last two years at Perrins School, in...
by Andrew Griffin | Mar 4, 2025 | England, Hampshire, International, News
HAMPSHIRE’S Walker Cup prospect Charlie Forster got his 2025 season off to a flying start with victory in Vegas as his Long Beach State team took the team title in last month’s Lake Las Vegas Invitational. It was Forster’s second win in the States since first heading...
by Andrew Griffin | Jan 7, 2025 | England, Hampshire, International, News
CHARLIE Forster will become just the second Hampshire player to appear in the Bonallack Trophy when Europe’s top amateurs tee it up against the best Asian amateurs at Dubai’s Al Hamra GC, on Wednesday. The Basingstoke GC member, who made his debut for Great Britain...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 23, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News
NORTH Hants came up a little shy in their bid to become the first club to be crowned English Champion Club in both the men’s and women’s amateur game as heavy rain forced England Golf to reduce the second event to 27 holes. And Robert Wheeler was left even more...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 21, 2024 | England, Hampshire, News, Uncategorized
NORTH Hants Golf Club will have the chance to make history this weekend when the men attempt to complete a unique double by becoming the first club to win the English Champion Club double in the same season. The old English Golf Union Champion Club tournament dates...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 30, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News
HAMPSHIRE captain Toby Burden will be keeping one eye on his phone awaiting updates from the English Amateur Championship, while working as a talent spotter for major UK technology firm Leidos. Burden has six members of the county’s first-team squad competing at...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 24, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News, Uncategorized
BASINGSTOKE GC’s Charlie Forster will become just the fourth Hampshire player to compete in the St Andrews Trophy in nearly 70 years, when Great Britain and Ireland take on Continental Europe at Royal Porthcawl, in Wales, which starts on Thursday. The 21-year-old...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 25, 2024 | England, National, News, Uncategorized
THE European Amateur Golf Championship has been won by the likes of Rory McIlroy and Sergia Garcia – while in the last six years Ryder Cup sensations Ludvig Aberg and Viktor Hovland have both been within a whisker of claiming the trophy, which dates back to 1996. But...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 20, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News
CHARLIE Forster is bidding to become the first Hampshire player to land the Amateur Championship since Harry Ellis seven years ago, after knocking out one of the favourites at Ballyliffin, on Thursday morning. The 21-year old from Basingstoke GC came through the first...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 16, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News, Order of Merit, South East
DARREN Walkley suffered heartbreak on countback for the second time in a year, as he missed out on the biggest win of his amateur career by a whisker. Liphook GC’s former player on Europe’s mini-pro tours lost out by virtue of a worse score in the Hampshire Hog, as...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 16, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News, Order of Merit, South East
THE amateur career of Connor Bell has largely been played in the shadow of his older brother Jonathan, who was an England Boys international as a teenager, having been crowned a Wee Wonders Champion several times before he was even 11. But now it is the turn of the...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 29, 2023 | England, National, News
MEMBERS at Fleet’s North Hants Golf Club are cheering a European Ryder Cup victory to the rafters in support of clubmate Justin Rose this weekend. Dozens of the 560-strong membership watched with baited breath before European captain Luke Donald paired Rose with...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 5, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE will be able to call upon their at least one of their top US college stars when they face Surrey, on Sunday, in a showdown for a place in October’s South East League Final. County captain Lawrence Cherry, the youngest at 26 since the position was created in...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 3, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S two Joe’s found themselves with two of the toughest draws in the first round at Ferndown Golf Club – and both were unceremoniously dumped out of the English Amateur Championship this afternoon. Bramshaw Golf Club’s Texas-based college player Joe Buenfeld...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 1, 2023 | England, News
BASINGSTOKE Golf Club’s Charlie Forster will be bidding to go at least one better when it comes to the English Amateur at Ferndown this week. Twelve months ago, the Southeastern Louisiana University student was riding high after his first season playing NCAA golf,...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 17, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE produced their best performance at the South East Qualifier in six years – missing out on a place in the English County Finals by 11 shots, at Farleigh GC, on Saturday. Their second-place finish behind newly-crowned champions Kent was their best since their...
by Andrew Griffin | May 26, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S former England U16 international George Saunders spoke about his desire to play in this week’s Brabazon Trophy – after missing out in last week’s South Qualifier held at Golf at Goodwood, a course where he is a member. Saunders was desperate to qualify for...
by Andrew Griffin | May 25, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News
LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT GC’s George Saunders was left sweating overnight on his chances of playing in the Brabazon Trophy at Sunningdale’s prestigious New Course. But his prayers were answered when Estonia’s Carl Hellat pulled out on Thursday morning, giving Hampshire’s...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 14, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
NORTH Hants Golf Club’s big weekend gets under way with the Hampshire Hog dinner on Friday night, when DP World Tour Ryder Cup director Guy Kinnings is the guest at the event’s annual dinner. Kinnings spent many years working for IMG, the worldwide sports management...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 14, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit, South East
THE story of how Justin Rose announced his great talents by winning the Hampshire Hog as a 14-year-old nearly 30 years ago has been inspiring junior golfers across the county ever since. Within three years, the North Hants GC member, from Hook, became the...
