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...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 7, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
THE reign of South Division champions Surrey will go to the final match of the South East League after they got the better of Lawrence Cherry’s Hampshire team at Blackmoor GC, on Sunday. Maintaining their 100 per cent record after wins against Kent and Sussex, would...
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 | Jul 26, 2023 | Boys, Hampshire, News
TWO of the county’s leading teenage talents have dashed back from the Carris Trophy at Moor Park in time to take part in the 2023 Hampshire Junior Championship at Waterlooville, starting tomorrow. Forty-six players will now tee it up for the 73rd Hampshire...
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 | Jul 14, 2023 | Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE captain Lawrence Cherry will go into this weekend’s South East Qualifier for the English County Finals without two of his big guns in his Six-man team. But the absence of both four-time county champion Ryan Henley and Darren Walkley – the man the...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 27, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
US OPEN winner and Ryder Cup ace Justin Rose hailed Hampshire’s sterling comeback to snuff out Sussex to the memory of the county’s former president and secretary Keith Maplesden. The one-time teenage Hampshire prodigy dedicted the victory to his long-time friend...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 17, 2023 | Colts, Hampshire, League, News
HAMPSHIRE will blood two members of the county’s U18 team for their second match in the new Challenge League, when captain Lawrence Cherry’s team travel to Sussex on Sunday. The new Hampshire first-team captain – who is combining the role with the Challenge team,...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 12, 2023 | Championship, Hampshire, News
RYAN Henley rolled back the years to claim his fourth Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship – making him the joint-third most successful golfer in England’s oldest county championship. The Stoneham GC member proved why his love affair with...
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...