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 | 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...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 29, 2023 | England, National, News
MEMBERS at Fleet’s North Hants Golf Club are cheering a European Ryder Cup victory to the rafters in support of clubmate Justin Rose this weekend. Dozens of the 560-strong membership watched with baited breath before European captain Luke Donald paired Rose with...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 28, 2023 | Hampshire, National, News, Seniors
FORMER England Seniors captain Alan Mew’s dream run in the US Senior Amateur Championship was dashed by New Zealand’s Brent Paterson, the reigning Senior Amateur Champion. Mew, the ex-European Seniors player, who represented England at Senior level from 2014 to 2017,...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 21, 2023 | Hampshire, League, National, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE were crowned South Division champions for the first time since 2018 – without hitting a single shot on Sunday. Kent beat Surrey in the final league match of the season 9-3 at Rochester & Cobham – leaving all three teams tied at the top of the table with...