by Andrew Griffin | Aug 26, 2026 | Boys, Hampshire, National, News
HAMPSHIRE made a solid start to their second match in their quest to land the English Boys County Championship title for the first time in 41 years – after calling up seventh man George Scott. They led the morning foursomes against Somerset 2-1 as the South West...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 24, 2026 | Boys, Hampshire, National, News
FOR the previous 18 months back in the mid-1990s, Justin Rose had made people sit up and take notice of the tall teenager from Hook. Rose was able to mix it with not just the best junior talents in the country, but also beat many of the leading men’s amateurs as well....
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 23, 2026 | Boys, Hampshire, National, News
WHEN Justin Rose played in his first English Boys Final he was only just 16… playing against some of the best juniors in the land… but he was not even the youngest Hampshire player in the seven-strong squad who travelled to Devizes’ North Wilts GC. Wellow’s David...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 30, 2026 | England, National, News
FOUR Hampshire players made it through to the matchplay knockout at the English Amateur Championship at Staffordshire’s Beau Desert. Hartley Wintney’s two-time US junior college winner Charlie Preston led the way in the 36-hole qualifier played at Beau Desert and...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 29, 2026 | Hampshire, National, News
CHARLIE Preston has made a strong start to the English Amateur Championship, shooting a fine 66 at Sutton Coldfield to lie in second place with a round to go in the 36-hole qualifier. Hampshire have a fine record in England Golf’s blue riband event – which has been...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 4, 2026 | Championship, England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit, South East, Uncategorized
IT’S MORE than 40 years since any amateur has successfully defended the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Amateur Championship – leaving last year’s winner Joe Buenfeld with a mountain to climb. But having waited three long years to grab the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup at...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 4, 2026 | Championship, England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit, Seniors, South East
BROKENHURST Manor has hosted the county championship four times since 1993 when Martin Young first attempted to land the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup – and 12 times in its 111-year history. But when the New Forest club hosts the 121st Hampshire, Isle of Wight and...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 19, 2026 | Hampshire, National, News
NORTH Hants’ latest junior international is hoping to make his mark in his first appearance in the Hampshire Hog on Sunday. Albie Beeston is two years old than Rose, who shocked the England selectors by beating the cream of the crop at North Hants 31 years ago, when...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 18, 2026 | Hampshire, National, News
JUSTIN Rose came close to breaking his Augusta Green Jacket duck for a fourth time in his long distinguished career, on Sunday – some 31 years after setting his Hampshire Hog record that still stands. Having finished runner-up three times since 2015, the Hook-raised...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 17, 2026 | England, Hampshire, National, News
GEORGE SAUNDERS, like all other golf fans, was glued to the TV at the weekend, cheering on Justin Rose in the former Hampshire junior’s attempt to claim a Green Jacket at the 21st attempt at Augusta. The Liphook GC member, who was crowned Hampshire U16 champion in...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 17, 2026 | England, Hampshire, National, News
THERE have been four winners of the Selborne Salver from Hampshire this century, and only three more in the competition’s entire 50-year history. During that time the likes of US Open winner Matt Fitzpatrick and Ryder Cup players Ross Fisher and Andy Sullivan have...
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...
