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 | 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 | 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...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 9, 2023 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
THE race to be crowned the 118th Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Champion begins today (Friday) at Hockley – the scene of one of the championship’s most remarkable finals thanks to Martin Young. Hockley, set high up on Twyford Down overlooking the...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 8, 2023 | Championship, Hampshire, News
THE first-ever winner of the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship was Scotland’s Freddie Tait back in April 1894 – some 27 years before the champion received the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup for the first time. The tall Scotsman, who would...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 1, 2023 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News, Seniors
STONEHAM’S James Pinchon claimed his first Hampshire Seniors title coming back from two shots behind with a round to play, to overhaul halfway leader Dave Edmunds, at Tylney Park, on Wednesday. Pinchon shot a round of 79 – only bettered by clubmate Alan Mew, who...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 31, 2022 | Boys, Championship, Hampshire, News
ROWLANDS Castle’s James Plater followed in the footsteps of Justin Rose by claiming silverware at both the Hampshire Junior Championship and the county schools tournament in the same season. The 16-year-old – who is now off scratch – shot one of the lowest rounds in...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 26, 2022 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
BRAMSHOTT Hill proved it’s quality not quantity that counts as one of the minnows of Hampshire Golf came out on top with their first County Sevens title since 1981. And the club based at the Dibden Golf Centre on the edge of the New Forest, survived a tense day to see...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 3, 2022 | Championship, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
ON PAPER it is some thing of a mystery in Hampshire golf – why is it nearly 40 years since the Courage Trophy has been held at North Hants GC? It was 1985 when the then Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Golf Union last staged the county strokeplay...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 2, 2022 | Championship, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
HAYLING’S Toby Burden has the chance to create some Hampshire Golf history on Sunday, when he defends his Courage Trophy and the county’s Order of Merit crowns. The 2019 Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Champion became the 11th player in the...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 1, 2022 | Boys, Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
ROWLANDS Castle’s James Plater became just the third player to land the Hampshire U16s crown back-to-back – matching the feat first achieved by European Tour ace Jack Singh-Brar. But only a badly plugged ball in a greenside bunker on the 17th hole prevented the...
by Andrew Griffin | May 29, 2022 | Championship, Hampshire, News
STONEHAM Golf Club provided all four semi-finalists in the 117th Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship, after their members dominated Saturday’s quarter-finals. Harrison Pake – the least well-known of the quartet – ended Hayling’s Toby...
by Andrew Griffin | May 27, 2022 | Championship, Hampshire, News, Uncategorized
RYAN Moody has only one reason to be playing in this weekend’s 117th Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship – it is his last chance to claim the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup. The county crown will be awarded to the winner of Sunday’s final...
by Andrew Griffin | May 26, 2022 | Championship, Hampshire, News
STONEHAM, which will host the county championship for the first time in more than a decade from May 27-29, has undergone a multi-million pound investment programme over the last decade, which was completed last year. Ryan Henley, who has won the club championship...
by Andrew Griffin | May 26, 2022 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
STONEHAM’S Ryan Henley has a very big chance to make some Hampshire Golf history and join a very exclusive club this weekend. For the three-time winner of the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup can become one of just five players to have won the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and...