by Andrew Griffin | Jun 21, 2025 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE captain Toby Burden is facing up to losing one of his most experienced campaigners for the rest of the season as he prepares for Sunday’s do-or-die clash with Sussex in the South East League. Burden’s boys know they must win their match away at Cowdray Park...
by Andrew Griffin | May 24, 2025 | Hampshire, League, News, South East, Team news
HAMPSHIRE captain Toby Burden has admitted picking a team for the county’s opening match against Kent as they bid for a third Daily Telegraph Salver in a row has been causing him some sleepless nights. Having lost two of the eight-man team that claimed the South East...
by Andrew Griffin | May 22, 2025 | England, Hampshire, National, News
ROWLANDS Castle’s former GB&I international Darren Wright will tee it up as the only past champion in the Brabazon Trophy, which begins today (Thursday), on a Surrey course he rates as one of the best in the South. Wright, who beat a field including a trio of...
by Andrew Griffin | May 13, 2025 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
JAMES Knight turned back the clock to the days when he stood toe-to-toe with the likes Luke Donald and Justin Rose as England’s two finest amateur talents, to claim his first Hampshire Order of Merit victory, in the Delhi Cup at Hockley. The Sandford Springs club...
by Andrew Griffin | May 13, 2025 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
DELHI Cup winner James Knight sent out a stark reminder that there is another mid-amateur capable of stepping into the Hampshire first-team, after county captain Toby Burden lost two of his rising college graduates to the pro ranks. Having been recalled to the...
by Andrew Griffin | May 1, 2025 | England, Hampshire, International, News
BASINGSTOKE’S Charlie Forster has been selected for the international team that will face America in next month’s Arnold Palmer Cup, the biggest team event in US college golf. The in-form Long Beach State student is bidding to become the first Hampshire player to...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 10, 2025 | England, Hampshire, National, News
SAM Parsons will bid to become just the second Blackmoor player to win the East Hampshire club’s Selborne Salver in 50 years, when the county’s domestic golf season gets under way on Friday. It is 30 years since Justin Rose staked his claim as a golf star of the...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 10, 2025 | England, Hampshire, National, News
SELBORNE Salver organiser Mike Cave has paid tribute to Peter McEvoy, the first ever winner of the Hampshire Salver, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 72. McEvoy is also the only player to have won the Selborne Salver twice in its 50-year history and...
by Andrew Griffin | Mar 27, 2025 | Awards, England, Hampshire, International, News
CHARLIE Forster’s father Lance is convinced his son is on the right track to reach the pinnacle of amateur golf – an appearance in the Walker Cup. Having been a late-starter comparatively – only taking up golf seriously in his last two years at Perrins School, in...
by Andrew Griffin | Mar 4, 2025 | England, Hampshire, International, News
HAMPSHIRE’S Walker Cup prospect Charlie Forster got his 2025 season off to a flying start with victory in Vegas as his Long Beach State team took the team title in last month’s Lake Las Vegas Invitational. It was Forster’s second win in the States since first heading...
by Andrew Griffin | Feb 24, 2025 | Awards, Hampshire, News, Team news
BASINGSTOKE GC’s Charlie Forster’s spectacular rise through the international ranks last year was recognised by Hampshire Golf as he picked up the Nettell Trophy for the most “outstanding contribution” to the county in 2024. The Long Beach State student, who is in his...
by Andrew Griffin | Jan 7, 2025 | England, Hampshire, International, News
CHARLIE Forster will become just the second Hampshire player to appear in the Bonallack Trophy when Europe’s top amateurs tee it up against the best Asian amateurs at Dubai’s Al Hamra GC, on Wednesday. The Basingstoke GC member, who made his debut for Great Britain...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 12, 2024 | Challenge League, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE will bid to complete the South East double for only the second time in their history when they face Essex in the second-ever Channel League Final. The two teams meet for a second-year running but Hampshire captain Harrison Pake will be hoping to go one...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 6, 2024 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
JAMES Knight – the one member of the Hampshire side that claimed the county’s first English County Championship still playing elite amateur golf 28 years later – has spoken for the first time about Essex “stealing” the South East League title from them in 1996....
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 5, 2024 | Hampshire, News, South East
THERE is one thing on Justin Rose’s glorious CV covering his days as an amateur and tour pro that might still rankle nearly 30 years on… the 16-year-old was in the team that lost to Essex in the 1996 South East League Final (SELF) three weeks after Hampshire had been...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 28, 2024 | County Sevens, Hampshire, News, Uncategorized
HOCKLEY have enjoyed home comforts in their quest to become just the third club to win the Hampshire Sevens five times. But if Alan Carpenter’s team are to lift the trophy for the first time since they hosted the final back in 2009, they will have to end Liphook’s...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 28, 2024 | Channel Islands, County Sevens, Hampshire, News
ROYAL Jersey are eyeing the chance of claiming a fourth County Sevens crown this weekend, to become one of the five most successful clubs in Hampshire Golf’s Inter-Club Knockout. After a stunning comeback to knockout L’Ancresse after travelling to Guernsey for the...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 27, 2024 | County Sevens, Hampshire, News, Uncategorized
LIPHOOK will try and create history by finally winning the Hampshire Sevens for the first time since the competition began back in 1966 – in Keith Maplesden’s memory. And their seven-strong squad who will face four-time winners Hockley in Sunday morning’s semi-finals...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 26, 2024 | Channel Islands, County Sevens, Hampshire, News
ROYAL Jersey are eyeing the chance of claiming a fourth County Sevens crown this weekend, to become one of the five most successful clubs in Hampshire Golf’s Inter-Club Knockout. After a stunning comeback to knockout L’Ancresse after travelling to Guernsey for the...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 23, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News
NORTH Hants came up a little shy in their bid to become the first club to be crowned English Champion Club in both the men’s and women’s amateur game as heavy rain forced England Golf to reduce the second event to 27 holes. And Robert Wheeler was left even more...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 21, 2024 | England, Hampshire, News, Uncategorized
NORTH Hants Golf Club will have the chance to make history this weekend when the men attempt to complete a unique double by becoming the first club to win the English Champion Club double in the same season. The old English Golf Union Champion Club tournament dates...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 2, 2024 | Courage Trophy, Hampshire, Mid Amateur, News, Order of Merit
FORMER Saints and Leeds footballer Paul Telfer should know about giant-killing, having been on the receiving end, and having helped Celtic pull off a shock in the Champions League by beating Manchester United. But now, 15 years after the retirement of the defender –...
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...
