by Andrew Griffin | Jul 19, 2022 | Boys, England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S hopes of claiming the Carris Trophy for the first time in more than 15 years looks set to be dashed for another 12 months after the first round of the English Boys Amateur Strokeplay Championship. Hampshire Boys captain Tom Chalk led a small Hampshire...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 4, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
TEST Valley’s new Logan Trophy winner Stuart Archibald admitted he was set to throw in the towel and walk-in with five holes to play – after a horror slip on the tee left him in agonising back pain. The 38-year-old former EuroPro Tour winner lost his footing hitting...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 1, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News, South East, Uncategorized
FORMER EuroPro and MENA Tour winner Stuart Archibald topped the leaderboard after the first round of the Logan Trophy, at Liphook GC. Archibald is the reigning Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Mid-Amateur Champion after his win at Brokenhurst Manor, in...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 30, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE will field a very strong line-up when Liphook hosts the Logan Trophy, starting on Friday – including former county captain Martin Young, who won the English Mid-Amateur 16 years ago. Young, who qualified for the British Senior Open at Sunningdale last...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 29, 2022 | England, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, News, South East
STONEHAM’S Ryan Moody’s bid to become the first amateur from Hampshire to come through Final Qualifying since Justin Rose in 1998 – and earn a spot in the 150th Open at St Andrews – ended in disappointment. The former mini-tour pro, who is taking up a PGA position at...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 21, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
STONEHAM’S Ryan Moody is through to Final Open Qualifying after finishing tied in fourth place at The Buckinghamshire in Regional Qualifying on Monday. The runner-up in last year’s Hampshire Order of Merit who reached the semi-finals of the county championship for a...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 20, 2022 | England, News, South East
NORTH Hants GC’s Charlie Forster finished fifth in The Berkshire Trophy – one of England’s most historic and important amateur strokeplay championships – on Sunday. The 19-year-old, who is the reigning Hampshire Junior Champion after his victory last summer just days...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 17, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE’S young guns are bidding for glory at the Berkshire Trophy – one of the country’s most famous and historic amateur competitions – which gets under way at The Berkshire Golf Club on Saturday morning. Rowlands Castle’s Billy McKenzie became just the third...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 8, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News
MARK Burgess will be hoping the hard work put in so far this year by the Hampshire first-team squad will boost his chances of becoming just the second player ever to win the Selborne Salver twice. Burgess, who delighted scores of Blackmoor members at the East...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 8, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News
THE Hampshire Hog will forever be remembered as the event at which a 14-year-old Justin Rose first announced his prodigious talents to the world of golf. The Hog was first played for back in 1957 and Rose became the youngest-ever winner in 1995 – and within two years...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 30, 2021 | England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE captain Neil Dawson is banking on local knowledge to secure a third South East League win of the season when Surrey are the visitors to Rowlands Castle, on Sunday. Dawson’s men bring the curtain down on the North Hants GC member’s first full season of league...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 26, 2021 | England, Hampshire, News, Seniors
MARTIN Young made a brave fist of trying to make the cut after qualifying for the British Seniors Open at Sunningdale. But nothing could spoil the Brokenhurst Manor member’s weekend even after missing out eventually by three shots. The 51-year-old, from Ringwood, was...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 20, 2021 | Boys, England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE are hoping to win the Carris Trophy for the first time since 2006 – and just the fifth time in the county’s history. Four golfers are carrying the county’s hopes as the English Boys’ Amateur Strokeplay Championship gets under way at Bristol & Clifton GC,...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 9, 2021 | England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE captain Neil Dawson is backing his young trio to make the birides he believes will be needed to win Saturday’s six-man qualifier at Norwich’s Eaton GC. Dawson has made the toughest decision of his county captaincy so far by deciding to leave out Rowlands...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 1, 2021 | Boys, England, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, News
HAMPSHIRE were left rueing a slow start to the South East Boys Qualifier after producing the best scores of the afternoon. Junior manager Wayne Matthews saw his team fire a brilliant nine-under par total after lunch at Kings Hill GC. But they had effectively taken...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 30, 2021 | Boys, England, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, News
MEON VALLEY G&CC’s Nick Matthews will lead Hampshire’s bid to reach the English Boys Finals when the South East Qualifier is held in Kent today (Wednesday). Half of Hampshire’s team arrived at Kings Hill GC on Tuesday fresh from playing in the English Schools...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 16, 2021 | England, Hampshire, News
TWO of the biggest amateur golf tournaments on England’s domestic amateur calendar – the Hampshire Hog and Selborne Salver, both staged in Hampshire – have been cancelled for the second-year running because of the coronavirus pandemic. East Hampshire’s Blackmoor Golf...
by Andrew Griffin | Feb 25, 2021 | England, Hampshire, Seniors
FORMER World No. 1 Justin Rose will be hoping for a major reversal of form as he goes in search of his third World Golf Championship when the WGC-Workday Championship is held at Florida’s Concession Golf Club, this week. The Jack Nicklaus-designed course celebrates...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 24, 2020 | Boys, England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S in-form juniors will attempt to claim the Carris Trophy for the first time since 2006 when Darren Wright won at Sherwood Forest. Stoneham’s James Freeman – fresh from winning last month’s Hampshire Boys’ Championship for the second time in three years at...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 24, 2020 | England, News
COULD the Amateur Championship be reverting to a simple knockout format due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic? The R&A has abandoned plans to use two courses – as it has for the past 36 years – to stage its traditional 36-hole qualifier, leading to a knockout...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 22, 2020 | England, News
ENGLAND Golf will attempt to break new ground this summer by holding its men’s and women’s national championships at the same time at one venue – at its Lincolnshire headquarters at Woodhall Spa. The national governing body had revealed its plan to try to salvage some...
