by Andrew Griffin | Jun 15, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE Colts kick-off their South East League campaign against Surrey, on Sunday, with a new manager in the shape of Shanklin & Sandown’s Nat Riddett. The 28-year-old, who works as a greenkeeper at Shanklin, has been a regular category one player in Hampshire...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 13, 2019 | News
Toby Burden lost in his first two Hampshire Isle of Wight and Channel Islands final appearances – including one at Hayling in 2006. Back then he was working as a greenkeeping assistant – he and fellow member Mark Thistleton had to get up before dawn and help prepare...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 13, 2019 | News
NEWLY-crowned county champion Toby Burden has revealed the secret behind his success in beating Hampshire captain Colin Roope 6&5 in the final at Army Golf Club, on Sunday. His best friend in golf – Elliot Groves, who caddied for him in the 2009 final, gave him a...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 7, 2019 | News
SHANKLIN and Sandown’s Jordan Sundborg has the chance to become the most successful Isle of Wight golfer some 90 years at the county championship this weekend. The Stirling University student who claimed the British Universities and Colleges Sport’s Order of Merit...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 6, 2019 | News
A NUMBER of players will be looking to impress county captain Colin Roope at this weekend’s county championship at Aldershot’s Army Golf Club. Blackmoor member Roope has to pick an eight-man team to face Sussex in the South East League, at North Hants, at the end of...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 4, 2019 | News
IT IS 70 years ago that 17-year-old Paddy Hine, from Stoneham Golf Club, wrote history in Hampshire and England’s amateur golf records by completing a unique treble – claiming the county championship and England’s Boys’ and Men’s Strokeplay titles in the same season....
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 3, 2019 | News
SIXTEEN-year-old Ben Schmidt became the youngest-ever winner of the Brabazon Trophy – winning by five shots at Leeds’ Alwoodley Golf Club, on Sunday – 70 years after it was first won by a 17-year-old. Schmidt pips major winners Sandy Lyle and Charl Schwartzel, who...
by Andrew Griffin | May 31, 2019 | News
HANBURY Manor’s Dominic Clemons claimed a spot in the Carris Trophy after winning the South East Group Junior Championship at Burhill. Last year’s Hertfordshire Boys Champion, who is also a past Scottish U14 Champion, shot rounds of 72 and 70 on Burhill’s New Course...
by Andrew Griffin | May 27, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE made it two wins out of two in the South East League South Division after an 8-4 win over Kent at Redlibbets, close to the Brands Hatch motor racing circuit. Any fears Hampshire would miss Billy McKenzie at the top of the order while the Rowlands Castle...
by Andrew Griffin | May 20, 2019 | News
OWEN Grimes must wish he was defending his Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship crown at Hockley instead of Aldershot’s Army Golf Club next month. For the former Murray State University golfer who stunned the cream of the county by beating...
