by Andrew Griffin | Feb 25, 2021 | Hampshire, News
WITH putting and performance around the greens key at The Concession, it is not surprising former Hampshire captain Martin Young expects to see Jordan Spieth and defending champion Patrick Reed in contention for the World Golf Championship crown. The three-time...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 3, 2020 | Hampshire, News
THERE are seven past champions in the field for today’s 36-hole qualifier at the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship. But there are just two players who have won the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup over the county’s illustrious links course...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 24, 2020 | Boys, England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S in-form juniors will attempt to claim the Carris Trophy for the first time since 2006 when Darren Wright won at Sherwood Forest. Stoneham’s James Freeman – fresh from winning last month’s Hampshire Boys’ Championship for the second time in three years at...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 24, 2020 | England, News
COULD the Amateur Championship be reverting to a simple knockout format due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic? The R&A has abandoned plans to use two courses – as it has for the past 36 years – to stage its traditional 36-hole qualifier, leading to a knockout...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 22, 2020 | England, News
ENGLAND Golf will attempt to break new ground this summer by holding its men’s and women’s national championships at the same time at one venue – at its Lincolnshire headquarters at Woodhall Spa. The national governing body had revealed its plan to try to salvage some...
by Andrew Griffin | Feb 18, 2020 | News
HERTFORDSHIRE’S Harry Goddard played with real courage and conviction coming down the stretch to win the Portuguese International Amateur Championship. Those characteristics came as no surprise to those who have been by the former England junior international’s side...
by Andrew Griffin | Jan 15, 2020 | News
NEW county captain Neil Dawson does not envisage too many changes on the playing front for Hampshire in 2020. He worked with the likes of Amateur Champions Harry Ellis and Scott Gregory – and Rowlands Castle’s Spanish Amateur Champion Billy McKenzie as colts. But the...
by Andrew Griffin | Jan 15, 2020 | News
HAMPSHIRE’S new county captain Neil Dawson has put creating an unbeatable team spirit at the top of his game plan after taking over from Colin Roope.The North Hants GC member led Hampshire Colts to the South East Final two years running, beating Essex in 2014, and...
by Andrew Griffin | Jan 15, 2020 | News
NOT many players get to play for two of the country’s leading counties when it comes to elite amateur golf as Colin Roope has. And despite Hampshire missing out on the English County Finals two years running – after winning three South East Qualifiers in a row under...
by Andrew Griffin | Dec 14, 2019 | News
STEVE Lewton carded a bogey-free 63 at Orange County National’s Panther Lake course in rainy conditions Friday to claim the 36-hole lead at 14-under 129 at the Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament’s Final Stage. After posting a six-under 66 on Thursday, Lewton kept...
by Andrew Griffin | Nov 25, 2019 | National, News
ESSEX’S James Allan will be looking to make up for the disappointment of missing out on the EuroPro Tour’s biggest prize by claiming the MENA Tour’s Journey to Jordan Tour Championship at Ayla Golf Course. The top 60 players on the MENA Tour’s order of merit tee it up...
by Andrew Griffin | Nov 25, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE’S Alan Mew has revealed his pride at being named the new England Senior Men’s team captain. The 66-year-old from Hampshire takes over the reins from Cheshire’s Roy Smethurst following his retirement at the end of a successful five-year tenure. Mew –...
by Andrew Griffin | Nov 13, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE’S Justin Rose has lent his name to the competition that helped him on his way to stardom – The Telegraph Junior Championship. And record-breaker Ben Schmidt is earning similar plaudits that followed the North Hants GC junior in the mid 1990s. The Yorkshire...
by Andrew Griffin | Nov 7, 2019 | News
AMERICA really is the Land of Opportunity for Lee-on-the-Solent Golf Club’s George Saunders.His “American Dream” is proving to be a second successful season at Texas Midland University for last year’s West of England Amateur Champion. And his stellar form has him...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 29, 2019 | News
FOUR of Hampshire’s U16 squad have been selected for the England U18 South Region squad for 2020, including South Winchester’s Josh Mulcahy and Hockley’s Tom Chalk. The pair are joined by Meon Valley’s Nick Mattthews and Stoneham’s Drew McKinnon. and were part of a...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 24, 2019 | News
FORMER Amateur Champion Harry Ellis claimed the first “winner’s cheque” in two years as a pro. But he had to stand and applaud as his push for a first official victory was dashed by Josh Hill, one of England’s hottest amateur prospects, at the latest MENA Tour event....
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 11, 2019 | News
Lee-on-the-Solent Golf Club’s Lewis Scott will make his Hampshire Colts debut in the South East League Final against Essex, at Basingstoke’s Weybrook Park, on Sunday. Picture by ANDREW GRIFFIN / AMG PICTURES FIVE months ago Lewis Scott was playing golf in the sunshine...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 10, 2019 | News
Hallowes GC’s Sam Bairstow receives the North of England Open Amateur Strokeplay Championship trophy from Yorkshire Union of Golf Clubs past president John Shaw (left) and his wife Gill (right). Picture by TIM JACKSON SHEFFIELD’S Sam Bairstow picked up his second big...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 10, 2019 | News
SHANKLIN & Sandown’s Nat Riddett has been able to field his strongest possible team for Hampshire’s South East Colts League Final against Essex. The Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands team have home advantage at Basingstoke’s Weybrook Park and colts...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 8, 2019 | News
BILLY McKenzie goes into his first test as a professional golfer at this week’s first stage of the European Tour Qualifying School, having found some form in his final two amateur events. The winner of two top amateur championships in the Tillman (2016) and Berkshire...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 7, 2019 | News
SUSSEX Seniors are fired up to win this year’s English Senior County Finals having come within a whisker of being crowned champions at Stanton-on-the-Wolds a year ago. With one hand on the trophy, rivals Lancashire were already beginning to congratulate Sussex on a...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 30, 2019 | News
BEN Quinney was mobbed by jubilant team-mates after holing the putt which earned Kent a dramatic English County Finals victory for just the second time in their history. The Kent PGA champion, from Bearsted GC, later admitted he didn’t know his team’s destiny lay...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 27, 2019 | News
MATTHEW Jordan carded a stunning 64, which included a hole-out eagle two followed by five successive birdies, at St Andrews Old Course to take the halfway lead in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The promising Cheshire has been plying his trade primarily on the...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 25, 2019 | News
LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT’S Sevens captain Kevin Smith was proud of his team’s performance at the County Sevens finals where they lost to Army Golf Club, who tied Rowlands Castle’s record for the most wins in the Hampshire Interclub Knockout in the process, with six each. In...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 25, 2019 | News
ARMY Golf Club equalled the record number of County Sevens wins by beating Lee-on-the-Solent at a rain-hit Petersfield Golf Club. The Aldershot club were the first-ever winners back in 1966 – the year England won the World Cup and became the first club to hold the...
