by Andrew Griffin | Aug 1, 2023 | England, News
BASINGSTOKE Golf Club’s Charlie Forster will be bidding to go at least one better when it comes to the English Amateur at Ferndown this week. Twelve months ago, the Southeastern Louisiana University student was riding high after his first season playing NCAA golf,...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 26, 2023 | Boys, Hampshire, News
TWO of the county’s leading teenage talents have dashed back from the Carris Trophy at Moor Park in time to take part in the 2023 Hampshire Junior Championship at Waterlooville, starting tomorrow. Forty-six players will now tee it up for the 73rd Hampshire...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 17, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE produced their best performance at the South East Qualifier in six years – missing out on a place in the English County Finals by 11 shots, at Farleigh GC, on Saturday. Their second-place finish behind newly-crowned champions Kent was their best since their...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 14, 2023 | Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE captain Lawrence Cherry will go into this weekend’s South East Qualifier for the English County Finals without two of his big guns in his Six-man team. But the absence of both four-time county champion Ryan Henley and Darren Walkley – the man the...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 27, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
US OPEN winner and Ryder Cup ace Justin Rose hailed Hampshire’s sterling comeback to snuff out Sussex to the memory of the county’s former president and secretary Keith Maplesden. The one-time teenage Hampshire prodigy dedicted the victory to his long-time friend...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 17, 2023 | Colts, Hampshire, League, News
HAMPSHIRE will blood two members of the county’s U18 team for their second match in the new Challenge League, when captain Lawrence Cherry’s team travel to Sussex on Sunday. The new Hampshire first-team captain – who is combining the role with the Challenge team,...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 12, 2023 | Championship, Hampshire, News
RYAN Henley rolled back the years to claim his fourth Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship – making him the joint-third most successful golfer in England’s oldest county championship. The Stoneham GC member proved why his love affair with...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 10, 2023 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News, Uncategorized
FIVE past champions who have claimed the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup made it through to the quarter-finals of the 118th Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship, at Hockley GC, on Saturday. That stat had Hampshire Golf officials looking...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 9, 2023 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
THE race to be crowned the 118th Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Champion begins today (Friday) at Hockley – the scene of one of the championship’s most remarkable finals thanks to Martin Young. Hockley, set high up on Twyford Down overlooking the...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 8, 2023 | Championship, Hampshire, News
THE first-ever winner of the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship was Scotland’s Freddie Tait back in April 1894 – some 27 years before the champion received the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup for the first time. The tall Scotsman, who would...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 1, 2023 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News, Seniors
STONEHAM’S James Pinchon claimed his first Hampshire Seniors title coming back from two shots behind with a round to play, to overhaul halfway leader Dave Edmunds, at Tylney Park, on Wednesday. Pinchon shot a round of 79 – only bettered by clubmate Alan Mew, who...
by Andrew Griffin | May 30, 2023 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News, Seniors
LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT’s Dave Edmunds has a two-shot lead going into the second round of the Hampshire Seniors Championship at Tylney Park. A regular member of Hampshire’s Seniors team since helping his club to the final of the County Sevens four years ago, Edmunds has...
by Andrew Griffin | May 26, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News
COUNTY captain Lawrence Cherry will attempt to improve on Hampshire’s recent record against Kent when the two teams clash at Liphook, on Sunday. The stakes are high this season after Dorset pulled out of the South East League after a 27-year stay, opting to join the...
by Andrew Griffin | May 26, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S former England U16 international George Saunders spoke about his desire to play in this week’s Brabazon Trophy – after missing out in last week’s South Qualifier held at Golf at Goodwood, a course where he is a member. Saunders was desperate to qualify for...
by Andrew Griffin | May 25, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News
LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT GC’s George Saunders was left sweating overnight on his chances of playing in the Brabazon Trophy at Sunningdale’s prestigious New Course. But his prayers were answered when Estonia’s Carl Hellat pulled out on Thursday morning, giving Hampshire’s...
by Andrew Griffin | May 19, 2023 | Colts, Hampshire, League, News, South East
COUNTY captain Lawrence Cherry will be a spectator for Hampshire’s first of the new South East Challenge League matches – against Sussex – at Army Golf Club, on Sunday. The Challenge League has replaced the old South East Colts League – first competed for back in 1974...
by Andrew Griffin | May 15, 2023 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
THEY call it the nappy factor in golf gambling – backing players on the American and European Tours, who have recently become fathers, especially for the first time, to win their first title, or one of the big events such as a Major. Well for Stoneham’s former pro...
by Andrew Griffin | May 13, 2023 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
DARREN Walkley believes his experience of playing Hayling’s windy links has given him the edge when it comes to winning his two Delhi Cups at Hockley Golf Club. The hilltop course is perched on top of Twyford Down, above the M3 cutting on the outskirts of Winchester...
by Andrew Griffin | May 12, 2023 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
DARREN Walkley insists he is not setting himself any targets as the Hampshire Order of Merit heads to Hockley GC, on Saturday – a venue where he was won the Delhi Cup twice already in his career. The best Hampshire amateurs are heading to Twyford Down for the 36-hole...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 24, 2023 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE captain Lawrence Cherry’s faith in introducing new blood into the county first-team was rewarded with a one-point victory over the Channel Islands, on Sunday. The youngest captain in Hampshire Golf’s post-war history included himself for the trip to Royal...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 21, 2023 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S youngest captain in more than 75 years will send his first team out into action against the Channel Islands at Royal Jersey, on Saturday. Stoneham’s 26-year-old Lawrence Cherry, who took over from Neil Dawson back in February, will blood three debutants in...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 14, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
NORTH Hants Golf Club’s big weekend gets under way with the Hampshire Hog dinner on Friday night, when DP World Tour Ryder Cup director Guy Kinnings is the guest at the event’s annual dinner. Kinnings spent many years working for IMG, the worldwide sports management...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 14, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit, South East
THE story of how Justin Rose announced his great talents by winning the Hampshire Hog as a 14-year-old nearly 30 years ago has been inspiring junior golfers across the county ever since. Within three years, the North Hants GC member, from Hook, became the...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 12, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit, South East
THE Selborne Salver honours board is peppered with some of the great names in amateur golf, who have gone on to have big successes in the pro ranks. Ross Fisher and Andy Sullivan have played Ryder Cups in the last 13 years while last year’s US Open winner Matt...
by Andrew Griffin | Mar 1, 2023 | Colts, Hampshire, News, South East
PART of new Hampshire Golf captain Lawrence Cherry’s “mini-revolution” will see him being able to blood new players in the new South East Challenge League. England Golf’s South East Group voted to scrap the U26 league – which had been reduce to just five teams from...
