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 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...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 6, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News, South East, Uncategorized
HAMPSHIRE captain Lawrence Cherry will lead his team in search of a first South East League Final victory in 11 years when they tackle Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire, on Sunday. The golfer, who is assistant manager at Fleet’s North Hants GC, will have to field a team...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 22, 2023 | County Sevens, Hampshire, News
PETERSFIELD are dreaming of being crowned County Sevens champions for the first time in the competition’s 58-year history, having reached the last four with a resounding 7-0 win over Weybrook Park in the quarter-finals. The East Hampshire team put any disappointment...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 5, 2023 | Courage Trophy
DARREN Walkley holed a 45-foot birdie putt to snatch the Courage Trophy from five-time champion Martin Young in a dramatic climax to the Hampshire Golf season – and confirm his victory in the county Order of Merit. Young had just made a bogey four on the island green...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 2, 2023 | Championship, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
FOR the first time in the event’s 10-year history, the Hampshire Order of Merit will have been decided before a ball has been struck in the season’s finale at the 2023 Courage Trophy. With Joe Buenfeld back at Texas” University of the Incarnate Word for the start of...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 28, 2023 | Hampshire, National, News, Seniors
FORMER England Seniors captain Alan Mew’s dream run in the US Senior Amateur Championship was dashed by New Zealand’s Brent Paterson, the reigning Senior Amateur Champion. Mew, the ex-European Seniors player, who represented England at Senior level from 2014 to 2017,...
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 | Aug 21, 2023 | Hampshire, League, National, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE were crowned South Division champions for the first time since 2018 – without hitting a single shot on Sunday. Kent beat Surrey in the final league match of the season 9-3 at Rochester & Cobham – leaving all three teams tied at the top of the table with...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 20, 2023 | Challenge League, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE reached their second South East Final in a week as Lawrence Cherry led his team to the South Division title in the Challenge League, with a comfortable win away to Kent on Sunday. Hampshire only needed a draw to reach October’s South East Challenge League...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 14, 2023 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
DARREN Walkley produced one of the biggest turnarounds of his career to claim the Mike Smith Memorial Trophy at Brokenhurst Manor, on Saturday. The Liphook member was less than a happy camper at lunch having shot five-over par on the course where he claimed the...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 13, 2023 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
JOE Buenfeld shot his lowest competitive round at Stoneham to win the Southampton club’s Stoneham Trophy, which counts to towards the Hampshire Order of Merit. A stunning 64 in the opening round gave the Bramshaw GC member a six-shot lead at lunch – and followed that...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 8, 2023 | Hampshire, News
SOME of Hampshire’s most successful golfers have led the tributes to Liphook’s former county golf union secretary and president Keith Maplesden, whose funeral was held last week. Sam Hutsby, who grew up as a junior at Lee-on-the-Solent GC, and two-time county champion...
