by Andrew Griffin | Sep 4, 2021 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
TOBY Burden can point to his fair share of bad luck since the COVID pandemic hit golf nearly 18 months ago. He has been beaten by a birdie on the 18th in the last two finals of the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship. But in 2020, defeat...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 3, 2021 | Hampshire, News
BROKENURST Manor’s Martin Young will also be looking to win his 11th Hampshire Mid-Amateur Championship – and his fourth in a row – when the county’s over 35s event is held as part of the Courage Trophy, on Sunday. Last year, the Brokenhurst veteran who has won more...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 3, 2021 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
ONLY three players have won the Courage Trophy back-to-back in its 59-year history. But Stoneham’s Ryan Moody knows if he can retain the Hampshire strokeplay title he won 12 months ago on his home course, greater glory probably awaits. For the 30-year-old Southampton...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 10, 2021 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
DESPITE a lowly finish by his standards in the Mike Smith Memorial Trophy, where he had to settle for ninth, Martin Young went on to claim the Stoneham Trophy 24 hours later. Young blew away most of the field with a first round 67, having got to the turn in six-under...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 10, 2021 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
THE worst of the summer weather could not spoil the 30th anniversary of the Mike Smith Memorial Trophy – as former county champion Stuart Archibald held on for an emotional win at Brokenhurst Manor, on Saturday. The New Forest club renamed the Brokenhurst Bowl in...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 6, 2021 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, News
THE race to be crowned Hampshire Golf’s Order of Merit winner moves up a gear with three events being played in three days – including today’s Portsmouth Open. The latter is being held at Crookhorn GC, but most of Hampshire’s big guns will be heading to Brokenhurst...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 30, 2021 | England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE captain Neil Dawson is banking on local knowledge to secure a third South East League win of the season when Surrey are the visitors to Rowlands Castle, on Sunday. Dawson’s men bring the curtain down on the North Hants GC member’s first full season of league...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 28, 2021 | Boys, Hampshire, News
CHARLIE Forster became the fifth North Hants player to claim the Hampshire Junior Championship in 71 years – even though he admitted playing way below his best. The phrase in football is winning ugly – Charlie’s MFC Popley team won the Hampshire U16s Cup before he...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 26, 2021 | England, Hampshire, News, Seniors
MARTIN Young made a brave fist of trying to make the cut after qualifying for the British Seniors Open at Sunningdale. But nothing could spoil the Brokenhurst Manor member’s weekend even after missing out eventually by three shots. The 51-year-old, from Ringwood, was...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 21, 2021 | Hampshire, News
IT TOOK a former county first-team player in the shape of Ben Wall to deny the amateurs a third win in a row against the professionals at the Hampshire Open. Wall, who played in the South East League Final against Essex in 2014, knows the links at Hayling well as a...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 20, 2021 | Boys, England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE are hoping to win the Carris Trophy for the first time since 2006 – and just the fifth time in the county’s history. Four golfers are carrying the county’s hopes as the English Boys’ Amateur Strokeplay Championship gets under way at Bristol & Clifton GC,...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 9, 2021 | Boys, Hampshire, News
BRAMSHAW’S Jack Buenfeld will join the ranks of stand-out teenagers who have appeared for Hampshire in the South East Qualifier, this weekend. The 2019 European Junior Open winner, from Southampton, has been named in the six-man team bidding to get Hampshire to the...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 9, 2021 | England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE captain Neil Dawson is backing his young trio to make the birides he believes will be needed to win Saturday’s six-man qualifier at Norwich’s Eaton GC. Dawson has made the toughest decision of his county captaincy so far by deciding to leave out Rowlands...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 1, 2021 | Boys, England, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, News
HAMPSHIRE were left rueing a slow start to the South East Boys Qualifier after producing the best scores of the afternoon. Junior manager Wayne Matthews saw his team fire a brilliant nine-under par total after lunch at Kings Hill GC. But they had effectively taken...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 30, 2021 | Boys, England, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, News
MEON VALLEY G&CC’s Nick Matthews will lead Hampshire’s bid to reach the English Boys Finals when the South East Qualifier is held in Kent today (Wednesday). Half of Hampshire’s team arrived at Kings Hill GC on Tuesday fresh from playing in the English Schools...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 9, 2021 | Hampshire, News
STONEHAM’S Ryan Moody could not hide his disappointment of bowing out of the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship at the semi-finals stage. But the Southampton docks worker, who is a member at Stoneham GC, must take comfort that he lost to...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 7, 2021 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
LA MOYE’S Jo Hacker became just the seventh Jersey player to win the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship, at North Hants GC, the home of Olympic Champion Justin Rose. The Jacksonville Dolphins golfer based at Sawgrass, the home of the PGA...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 3, 2021 | Hampshire, News
TOBY Burden’s 100 per cent record in this season’s South East League has been a sure sign that a new family routine – and a second lockdown in a year, which closed the county’s golf courses – has not dulled his appetite. Burden revealed this week: “I put the clubs...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 3, 2021 | Hampshire, News
THEY call it the nappy factor in professional golf… fatherhood turns struggling journeymen into first-time winners, and accelerates players who find it less difficult to get over the winning line. Fatherhood among the younger element in the crème of the country – let...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 3, 2021 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
FOUR Jersey players – including two-time Jersey junior champion Jo Hacker – will fly the flag for the Channel Islands at this weekend’s county championship. Last year was the 115th Hampshire Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship – and one of a small...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 2, 2021 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, News
PICTURED: North Hants Charlie Forster, the new South West Schools Champion who makes his county championship debut at his home club North Hants on Friday. THE one big title that eluded Justin Rose’s meteoric rise to the top was the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel...
by Andrew Griffin | May 9, 2021 | Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE face Dorset in the new-look South East League at Broadstone, on Sunday, and captain Neil Dawson can’t wait for the season to start. Dawson is keeping his cards close to his chest as he gives Dorset the utmost respect, even though Hampshire have only lost...
by Andrew Griffin | May 8, 2021 | Hampshire, News
HELPING Hampshire’s leading amateurs get back to the levels they performed at – before the pandemic wiped out most of the 2020 season – will be the key challenge for new captain Neil Dawson in the coming weeks. And captain Dawson, who successfully managed the...
by Andrew Griffin | May 8, 2021 | Hampshire, News
NEW Hampshire captain Neil Dawson will finally get to send out his first team representing Hampshire, Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands against Dorset on Sunday – some 18 months after taking over the job from Blackmoor’s Colin Roope. Dawson, a banking manager who...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 16, 2021 | England, Hampshire, News
TWO of the biggest amateur golf tournaments on England’s domestic amateur calendar – the Hampshire Hog and Selborne Salver, both staged in Hampshire – have been cancelled for the second-year running because of the coronavirus pandemic. East Hampshire’s Blackmoor Golf...
