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...
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...
