by Andrew Griffin | Jun 7, 2021 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
LA MOYE’S Jo Hacker became just the seventh Jersey player to win the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship, at North Hants GC, the home of Olympic Champion Justin Rose. The Jacksonville Dolphins golfer based at Sawgrass, the home of the PGA...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 3, 2021 | Hampshire, News
TOBY Burden’s 100 per cent record in this season’s South East League has been a sure sign that a new family routine – and a second lockdown in a year, which closed the county’s golf courses – has not dulled his appetite. Burden revealed this week: “I put the clubs...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 3, 2021 | Hampshire, News
THEY call it the nappy factor in professional golf… fatherhood turns struggling journeymen into first-time winners, and accelerates players who find it less difficult to get over the winning line. Fatherhood among the younger element in the crème of the country – let...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 3, 2021 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
FOUR Jersey players – including two-time Jersey junior champion Jo Hacker – will fly the flag for the Channel Islands at this weekend’s county championship. Last year was the 115th Hampshire Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship – and one of a small...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 2, 2021 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, News
PICTURED: North Hants Charlie Forster, the new South West Schools Champion who makes his county championship debut at his home club North Hants on Friday. THE one big title that eluded Justin Rose’s meteoric rise to the top was the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel...
by Andrew Griffin | May 9, 2021 | Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE face Dorset in the new-look South East League at Broadstone, on Sunday, and captain Neil Dawson can’t wait for the season to start. Dawson is keeping his cards close to his chest as he gives Dorset the utmost respect, even though Hampshire have only lost...
by Andrew Griffin | May 8, 2021 | Hampshire, News
HELPING Hampshire’s leading amateurs get back to the levels they performed at – before the pandemic wiped out most of the 2020 season – will be the key challenge for new captain Neil Dawson in the coming weeks. And captain Dawson, who successfully managed the...
by Andrew Griffin | May 8, 2021 | Hampshire, News
NEW Hampshire captain Neil Dawson will finally get to send out his first team representing Hampshire, Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands against Dorset on Sunday – some 18 months after taking over the job from Blackmoor’s Colin Roope. Dawson, a banking manager who...
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 | Feb 25, 2021 | Hampshire, News
WITH putting and performance around the greens key at The Concession, it is not surprising former Hampshire captain Martin Young expects to see Jordan Spieth and defending champion Patrick Reed in contention for the World Golf Championship crown. The three-time...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 3, 2020 | Hampshire, News
THERE are seven past champions in the field for today’s 36-hole qualifier at the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship. But there are just two players who have won the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup over the county’s illustrious links course...
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...
