by Andrew Griffin | Aug 5, 2022 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
THE race to be crowned the 2022 Hampshire Order of Merit winner gathers pace when the Stoneham and Mike Smith Memorial trophies – which make up the Solent Salver – are held at Stoneham and Brokenhurst Manor respectively this weekend. The two 36-hole club opens...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 5, 2022 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
AFTER making his unexpected county debut in the heavy defeat against Surrey last weekend, James Atkins is convinced it has only made him more determined to play with the county’s top amateurs more often. The North Hants GC member answered an SOS from Hampshire captain...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 1, 2022 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE suffered one of the heaviest defeats in their South East League history as Surrey claimed a 101/2-11/2 win at Coombe Hill, on Sunday, to leave the visitors with just one win in their four South Division games in 2022. The final match in the South Division...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 30, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
STONEHAM’S Elliot Groves spends most of the summer travelling the length and breadth of the UK watching players he has helped – or is helping – find golf scholarships in the States. Having played professional golf on the PGA South and Hampshire PGA circuit having...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 28, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE are guaranteed to have one player in the third round of the English Amateur Championship on Friday afternoon. But the disappointing news for Hampshire supporters is that it is because two of their rising stars – Charlie Forster and Joe Buenfeld are drawn...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 27, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News
THE son of Ryder Cup legend Ian Poulter – dubbed the Postman – delivered a hammer blow to George Saunders’ hopes of making the top 64 at the English Amateur Championship. The Lee-on-the-Solent GC member suffered the agony of missing out on a place in knockout stages...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 26, 2022 | Colts, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE Colts manager Lawrence Cherry steered his side home to beat Kent after winning the final game left out on the course at Sittingborne and Milton Regis GC, on Sunday. And the last-gasp win over Kent’s Callum Abbott in the last of the eight singles game meant...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 25, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News
AS the 92nd English Amateur Championship gets under way at Lindrick and Worksop on Tuesday, Hampshire’s players can be inspired by the county’s good record in the event this century. That is largely thanks to the likes of Harry Ellis and Scott Gregory, who followed...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 19, 2022 | Boys, England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S hopes of claiming the Carris Trophy for the first time in more than 15 years looks set to be dashed for another 12 months after the first round of the English Boys Amateur Strokeplay Championship. Hampshire Boys captain Tom Chalk led a small Hampshire...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 8, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT GC’s George Saunders will chase individual glory in a bid to propel Hampshire to the English County Finals for the first time since 2017 when they play in the South East Qualifier (SEQ) in Suffolk, on Saturday. The former England U16 international...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 8, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
MARTIN Young is about to extend his lead with the most appearances in the South East Qualifier for the English County Finals, when Hampshire tee it up at Bury St Edmunds, on Saturday. The Brokenhurst Manor veteran, who is 52, has played in every six-man qualifier...
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...
