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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Jul 30, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News
HAMPSHIRE captain Toby Burden will be keeping one eye on his phone awaiting updates from the English Amateur Championship, while working as a talent spotter for major UK technology firm Leidos. Burden has six members of the county’s first-team squad competing at...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 24, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News, Uncategorized
BASINGSTOKE GC’s Charlie Forster will become just the fourth Hampshire player to compete in the St Andrews Trophy in nearly 70 years, when Great Britain and Ireland take on Continental Europe at Royal Porthcawl, in Wales, which starts on Thursday. The 21-year-old...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 24, 2024 | Boys, Hampshire, National, News
MOST of Hampshire were cheering Justin Rose on in his quest to win the Claret Jug for the first time at Royal Troon, on Sunday. But for the Hampshire PGA club professional responsible for encouraging the next generation of young golfers to take up the game of golf and...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 23, 2024 | Hampshire, National, News
KEVIN Caplehonrn who spent a week coaching spectators in the PGA Swingzone at The 152nd Open Championship, at Royal Troon, was buzzing about the experience laid on for the thousands of spectators at the final Major of the season. The Hampshire PGA club pro was part of...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 23, 2024 | Hampshire, National, News
KEVIN CAPLEHORN, who has led coaching of Hampshire’s youngest juniors over the last few years, was doubly delighted when Sam Hutsby – one of his old shop assistants at Lee-on-the-Solent – qualified to play in The Open. Kev explained: “Sam Hutsby was one the UK’s top...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 25, 2024 | England, National, News, Uncategorized
THE European Amateur Golf Championship has been won by the likes of Rory McIlroy and Sergia Garcia – while in the last six years Ryder Cup sensations Ludvig Aberg and Viktor Hovland have both been within a whisker of claiming the trophy, which dates back to 1996. But...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 20, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News
CHARLIE Forster is bidding to become the first Hampshire player to land the Amateur Championship since Harry Ellis seven years ago, after knocking out one of the favourites at Ballyliffin, on Thursday morning. The 21-year old from Basingstoke GC came through the first...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 16, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News, Order of Merit, South East
DARREN Walkley suffered heartbreak on countback for the second time in a year, as he missed out on the biggest win of his amateur career by a whisker. Liphook GC’s former player on Europe’s mini-pro tours lost out by virtue of a worse score in the Hampshire Hog, as...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 16, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News, Order of Merit, South East
THE amateur career of Connor Bell has largely been played in the shadow of his older brother Jonathan, who was an England Boys international as a teenager, having been crowned a Wee Wonders Champion several times before he was even 11. But now it is the turn of the...
