by Andrew Griffin | Aug 31, 2024 | Courage Trophy, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
THE 2024 Hampshire Golf season and the race for the Cullen Quaich is turning into a shoot-out between North Hants’ Robert Wheeler and James Atkins, starting at Aldershot’s Army Golf Club. The pair are playing in the Courage Trophy on Sunday, at Army GC, with less than...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 24, 2024 | Challenge League, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE stand on the brink of qualifying for both of the South East League Finals this weekend, with Harrison Pake’s Challenge League side needing just a draw from their last game against Kent to make it to the October final. But the Stoneham member, who took over...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 10, 2024 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
A STRONG field containinging four of the last seven Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Champions will contest the 42nd Stoneham Trophy on Saturday, as the county’s Order of Merit winds up towards next month’s finale. Stoneham’s James Freeman, who...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 9, 2024 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
TOBY Burden described defending their South Division title as one of the best days in more than 20 years playing golf for the county. Having made his men’s league debut back in 2006 after several years in the county junior ranks, Toby’s greater experience in the...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 8, 2024 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
TOBY Burden led from the front and the rear to book Hampshire’s place in October’s South East League Final by saving his team from defeat against Surrey at Hindhead, in their final South Division match of the season. The 6-6 draw meant Surrey cannot overtake the...
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 | Jul 24, 2024 | Boys, Hampshire, National, News
MOST of Hampshire were cheering Justin Rose on in his quest to win the Claret Jug for the first time at Royal Troon, on Sunday. But for the Hampshire PGA club professional responsible for encouraging the next generation of young golfers to take up the game of golf and...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 23, 2024 | Hampshire, National, News
KEVIN Caplehonrn who spent a week coaching spectators in the PGA Swingzone at The 152nd Open Championship, at Royal Troon, was buzzing about the experience laid on for the thousands of spectators at the final Major of the season. The Hampshire PGA club pro was part of...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 23, 2024 | Hampshire, National, News
KEVIN CAPLEHORN, who has led coaching of Hampshire’s youngest juniors over the last few years, was doubly delighted when Sam Hutsby – one of his old shop assistants at Lee-on-the-Solent – qualified to play in The Open. Kev explained: “Sam Hutsby was one the UK’s top...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 24, 2024 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE’S new captain Toby Burden was full of praise for Brokenhurst Manor after he claimed the winning point as his team romped to a 10-2 victory over Sussex, on Sunday. Burden, who stepped up from his vice-captain’s role last month when Stoneham’s Lawrence Cherry...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 24, 2024 | Hampshire, News, South East, Uncategorized
TOBY Burden has become the first Hayling member to become captain of Hampshire, Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands in the role’s 74-year history. The 36-year-old, who made his first-team debut for Hampshire in 2006 – has stepped up from his vice-captaincy role...
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 | Jun 14, 2024 | Challenge League, Hampshire, News, South East
HARRISON Pake is targeting going one better than his predecessor after taking over the reins of Hampshire’s Challenge League side, which now acts as the feeder to the county men’s team. Last year county captain Lawrence Cherry, from Stoneham GC, became the...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 11, 2024 | Championship, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S defending champions’s hopes of writing even more pages in the record books were undone by Blackmoor’s Sam Parsons, whose 3&1 victory prevented Ryan Henley from becoming the second most successful player in the county championship’s 130-year history....
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 11, 2024 | Championship, Hampshire, News
NEWLY-crowned amateur champion Sam Parsons believes his newborn son Milo can take a lot of the credit for his superb victory over defending champion Ryan Henley, denying a fifth Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup in the county veteran’s quest to write more pages in the...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 10, 2024 | Championship, Hampshire, News
HOPES of Ryan Henley writing even more pages in the 130-year-old county championship record books were undone by Blackmoor’s Sam Parsons, who piled on the pressure on the defending champion down the back nine in the final to secure a 3&1 victory. Parsons put his...
by Andrew Griffin | May 24, 2024 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
LAWRENCE Cherry will bow out as Hampshire’s captain on Sunday, just three months into his second season in the role – having landed his dream job in Dubai. The 27-year-old – who moved to North Hants as assistant general manager in September 2022 – is moving to one of...
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 | 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 | Oct 18, 2023 | Challenge League, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE were denied a first South East double since 1994 as Essex snatched the Challenge League trophy out of their hands in a see-saw final at Mill Hill GC, on Sunday. For the second time in five years Sam Parsons was leading by one with two holes to play in a...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 10, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News, South East, Uncategorized
LAWRENCE Cherry became the youngest county captain to pick up the Daily Telegraph Salver in 60 years, with a comprehensive victory over Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire in the South East League Final, on Sunday. After Cherry’s side had wrapped up a crushing 81/2-31/2...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 7, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
TEST Valley’s Stuart Archibald is confident Hampshire can mark the 60th anniversary of the first South East League Final by landing the Daily Telegraph Salver for the first time in 11 years when they face Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire, on Sunday. The three-time EuroPro...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 7, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
BLACKMOOR’S Sam Parsons is determined to make up for lost time having regained his place in the Hampshire team in time for this Sunday’s South East League Final against Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire (B.B.&O.). Five years ago, he was the last player out on the...
