by Andrew Griffin | Sep 5, 2025 | Courage Trophy, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
ONE of Hampshire Golf’s most popular and well-known figures will be honoured on Sunday when the County Strokeplay Championship is renamed the Keith Maplesden Bowl. The former Hampshire Golf secretary and president passed away two years ago after a short illness. HIs...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 2, 2025 | Hampshire, International, News, Walker Cup
LONG Beach State golf coach Rob Murray has been delighted by the progress of Hampshire’s latest Walker Cup star Charlie Forster, following two outstanding seasons playing for the university on the south side of Los Angeles. Forster has helped lift Long Beach towards a...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 29, 2025 | Hampshire, International, News, Uncategorized, Walker Cup
IF you could choose any venue to make your Walker Cup debut – excluding Augusta – any serious student of the game would pick Cypress Point, on the Monterrey peninsula just south of San Francisco, where the US Amateur was played at the city’s famous Olympic Club last...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 29, 2025 | Walker Cup
AFTER being named as just the eighth player from Hampshire to have been selected for amateur golf’s equivalent to the Ryder Cup, Basingstoke’s Charlie Forster has spent the last few days getting grounded back in his comfort zone on the other side of the Atlantic. With...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 21, 2025 | Hampshire, International, Walker Cup
BASINGSTOKE Golf Club’s Charlie Forster was “over the moon” to learn that he will become just the eighth player from Hampshire to appear in the Walker Cup, when Great Britain and Ireland face the USA at California’s stunning Cypress Point, next month. The 22-year-old,...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 12, 2025 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit, South East
IF Sam Parsons needed any further proof of how he has become a better golfer since the birth of his first son Milo, the results of the last fortnight have proven that last year’s win in the final of the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 12, 2025 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit, South East
JAMIE Markwick sent out yet another reminder of his talents as the former South East Junior Champion became the first player from Corhampton to claim the Mike Smith Memorial Trophy. Markwick held off a strong challenge in the second round from last year’s Hampshire,...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 30, 2025 | England, National, News, Uncategorized
FOUR Hampshire players are through to the knockout stage of the English Amateur Championship at Royal Liverpool’s Hoylake after another low-scoring day on Merseyside. Corhampton’s Jamie Markwick and Liphook’s Sam West headed the list of players from the South Coast...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 29, 2025 | England, Hampshire, National, News
THREE of Hampshire’s top talents have made a fast start in qualifying for this week’s English Amateur Championship, at Hoylake, on Tuesday. With none of the country’s leading players who are in with a chance of selection for the Walker Cup clash against America at...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 11, 2025 | Hampshire, News, South East, Team news
IF Hampshire are to win the Six-Man for the eighth time since 2002 and qualify for September’s England County Finals they will have to do it without New Forest veteran Martin Young and the county’s Walker Cup prospect Charlie Forster. Hampshire captain Toby Burden...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 7, 2025 | England, Hampshire, National, News, Uncategorized
HAMPSHIRE’S Stuart Archibald secured his second Logan Trophy title in four years cruising to a five-shot win at Rockliffe Hall, as he finished as the only player under-par at the North East course. The Test Valley member – who has been a regular in the county’s South...
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....
