by Andrew Griffin | Jul 4, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
TEST Valley’s new Logan Trophy winner Stuart Archibald admitted he was set to throw in the towel and walk-in with five holes to play – after a horror slip on the tee left him in agonising back pain. The 38-year-old former EuroPro Tour winner lost his footing hitting...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 1, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News, South East, Uncategorized
FORMER EuroPro and MENA Tour winner Stuart Archibald topped the leaderboard after the first round of the Logan Trophy, at Liphook GC. Archibald is the reigning Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Mid-Amateur Champion after his win at Brokenhurst Manor, in...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 30, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE will field a very strong line-up when Liphook hosts the Logan Trophy, starting on Friday – including former county captain Martin Young, who won the English Mid-Amateur 16 years ago. Young, who qualified for the British Senior Open at Sunningdale last...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 29, 2022 | England, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, News, South East
STONEHAM’S Ryan Moody’s bid to become the first amateur from Hampshire to come through Final Qualifying since Justin Rose in 1998 – and earn a spot in the 150th Open at St Andrews – ended in disappointment. The former mini-tour pro, who is taking up a PGA position at...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 28, 2022 | Boys, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE will send a relatively inexperienced team to Wednesday’s South East Boys Qualifier at London’s Hendon GC. It is six years since Hampshire qualified for the English Boys Finals – having contested them three times in four years from 2012-2015, with the likes...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 21, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
STONEHAM’S Ryan Moody is through to Final Open Qualifying after finishing tied in fourth place at The Buckinghamshire in Regional Qualifying on Monday. The runner-up in last year’s Hampshire Order of Merit who reached the semi-finals of the county championship for a...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 20, 2022 | England, News, South East
NORTH Hants GC’s Charlie Forster finished fifth in The Berkshire Trophy – one of England’s most historic and important amateur strokeplay championships – on Sunday. The 19-year-old, who is the reigning Hampshire Junior Champion after his victory last summer just days...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 17, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE’S young guns are bidding for glory at the Berkshire Trophy – one of the country’s most famous and historic amateur competitions – which gets under way at The Berkshire Golf Club on Saturday morning. Rowlands Castle’s Billy McKenzie became just the third...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 11, 2022 | Colts, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE Colts have the chance to gain some revenge for two final defeats in a row when they entertain Essex – the reigning South East Champions – at Barton-on-Sea GC, on Sunday. But they will have to do it without the two players who starred in last month’s county...
by Andrew Griffin | May 29, 2022 | Championship, Hampshire, News
STONEHAM Golf Club provided all four semi-finalists in the 117th Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship, after their members dominated Saturday’s quarter-finals. Harrison Pake – the least well-known of the quartet – ended Hayling’s Toby...
by Andrew Griffin | May 27, 2022 | Championship, Hampshire, News, Uncategorized
RYAN Moody has only one reason to be playing in this weekend’s 117th Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship – it is his last chance to claim the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup. The county crown will be awarded to the winner of Sunday’s final...
by Andrew Griffin | May 26, 2022 | Championship, Hampshire, News
STONEHAM, which will host the county championship for the first time in more than a decade from May 27-29, has undergone a multi-million pound investment programme over the last decade, which was completed last year. Ryan Henley, who has won the club championship...
by Andrew Griffin | May 26, 2022 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
STONEHAM’S Ryan Henley has a very big chance to make some Hampshire Golf history and join a very exclusive club this weekend. For the three-time winner of the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup can become one of just five players to have won the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and...
by Andrew Griffin | May 16, 2022 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
STONEHAM’S James Freeman claimed his first men’s open title by winning Hockley’s Delhi Cup in the first Hampshire Order of Merit event of the season. And the two-time Hampshire Junior Champion had to fend off former England U16 international George Saunders and...
by Andrew Griffin | May 13, 2022 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit, Uncategorized
THE Hampshire Order of Merit gets under way on Saturday with the first qualifying event – the Delhi Cup at Hockley GC – which features four members of the Hampshire first-team that put Dorset to the sword at Liphook GC, on Sunday. County captain Neil Dawson is in the...
by Andrew Griffin | May 10, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE captain Neil Dawson was a proud skipper after watching his team bounce back from last week’s Kent defeat with a demolition job against Dorset, winning 10-2 at Liphook GC. The North Hants GC member knew that anything but a big win would effectively kill their...
by Andrew Griffin | May 7, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
AFTER Rowlands Castle’s former England international Darren Wright lost 4&3 to Kent’s Conor Byers, Hampshire still had a glimmer of hope to pinch a draw in their first league game of the season at North Foreland. Defeat for Wright, one of just 10 players to have...
by Andrew Griffin | May 7, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE captain Neil Dawson knows that nothing less than three wins – starting with this weekend clash with Dorset – will do if his side are to make the South East League Final for the first time in four years. A disappointing 8-4 defeat at the hands of Kent on...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 29, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
STONEHAM’S Ryan Henley is set to make his first league appearance for Hampshire in some six years when Neil Dawson’s team travel to Kent this weekend. The Southampton-based has been a standout amateur having won three county championships in nine years and appeared in...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 29, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE face a different challenge at the start of their campaign this weekend as they bid to reach the South East League Final for the first time since 2018. County captain Neil Dawson has to prepare his eight-man team for back-to-back fixtures – thanks to a...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 8, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News
MARK Burgess will be hoping the hard work put in so far this year by the Hampshire first-team squad will boost his chances of becoming just the second player ever to win the Selborne Salver twice. Burgess, who delighted scores of Blackmoor members at the East...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 8, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News
THE Hampshire Hog will forever be remembered as the event at which a 14-year-old Justin Rose first announced his prodigious talents to the world of golf. The Hog was first played for back in 1957 and Rose became the youngest-ever winner in 1995 – and within two years...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 29, 2021 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
CAMS Hall overcame a selection crisis to land the prestigious County Sevens title, beating mighty Stoneham in the final at Bramshaw Golf Club, on Sunday. As Europe’s Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington was sending out his battered golfers for the Sunday singles at...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 17, 2021 | Boys, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE Boys will contest their first South East U18 League Final at the sixth attempt when they go head-to-head with Bedfordshire and B.B.&O. at Halesworth GC, on Sunday. Newport GC’s Hampshire junior manager Wayne Matthews will take his eight-strong team to...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 7, 2021 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
HAYLING’S Toby Burden became the first player ever to claim the treble by winning the Courage Trophy, Cole Scuttle and the Hampshire Order of Merit in one go. Victory by a shot over Rowlands Castle’s Darren Wright and Stoneham’s Ryan Moody – denying the latter the...
