by Andrew Griffin | Sep 21, 2019 | News
SHANKLIN & Sandown’s first-team captain Conner Knight will be relying on some inside knowledge as he and team-mates Ben Nicholls and Ben Guy attempt to land the English Champion Club title on Sunday. The trio arrived at Romford Golf Club, in Essex, where Nicholls’...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 20, 2019 | News
The Army team that claimed the County Sevens title after beating Ryde in the Hampshire Inter-Club Knockout Finals at Bramshaw Manor, in 2017. Picture by ANDREW GRIFFIN / AMG PICTURES LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT will bid for just their second County Sevens title when they travel...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 19, 2019 | News
IT is 10 years since Paul Casey enjoyed getting his hands on the BMW PGA Championship trophy – at the course that first fuelled his dreams of becoming a professional golfer. That narrow one-shot win on the West Course – which had already undergone three years of...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 18, 2019 | News
COUNTY champion Toby Burden became the first Hampshire player to be crowned England’s Champion of Champion after a dramatic play-off against Somerset’s Jake McGoldrick. The former EuroPro Tour player from Hayling Golf Club, completed a club, county and country treble...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 6, 2019 | News
AS Royal Liverpool prepares to host the 47th Walker Cup between Great Britain and Ireland and the USA – as part of its celebration of 150 years of golf at Hoylake – ANDREW GRIFFIN spoke to the last Hampshire player to win a major domestic honour at the Merseyside...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 16, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE’S domination of the British Par 3s Junior Qualifer continued as South Winchester’s Josh Mulcahy holed a thrilling 30-foot putt to win a play-off. After Newport Golf Club’s Nick Matthews claimed the prize in front of Ryder Cup legend Tony Jacklin, at Nailcote...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 13, 2019 | News
SHANKLIN and Sandown’s European Universities and Colleges champion Jordan Sundborg has added another first to his growing golf CV – by completing a career Solent Slam. In 2016 he was the first Isle of Wight player to win the Stoneham Trophy at the Southampton club,...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 9, 2019 | News
ENGLAND have won the R&A Boys’ Home Internationals for the fourth year running after defeating Ireland 8-7 in a nail-biting title decider at Ashburnham Golf Club. For the second straight year, England triumphed at the expense of its Irish counterparts in a tense...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 2, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE have three players through to the last 32 in the English Amateur Championship at Hankley Common, as George Saunders pulled off one of the shocks of the day knocking out Somerset’s Walker Cup prospect Tom Plumb. Saunders, who spent several years as a regular...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 30, 2019 | News
SUSSEX’S Tom Thurloway will defend his title when the English Men’s Amateur Championship gets underway at Hankley Common and North Hants today (Tuesday). Thurloway, from Chartham Park, beat Gloucestershire’s Joe Long 6&5 in last year’s final at Formby, and is now...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 17, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE captain Colin Roope had no regrets after his team finished fifth at the South East Qualifier some 17 shots behind champions Kent, who won for the first time since the late 1980s. The Blackmoor man was in the Hampshire team that took the English County...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 16, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE’S incredible record of seven wins in 12 years in the regional qualifier for the English County Finals could not help them in their quest to regain the South East crown. Having been beaten by a very strong Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire side 12...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 15, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE will try to get the monkey off their back by finally qualifying for the English Seniors Finals when the South East Qualifier gets under way at East Sussex National, today (Tuesday). The team led by Hampshire Golf president Alan Drayton has never qualified...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 12, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE captain Colin Roope believes he has made the hardest decision since taking over the role after naming his team for this weekend’s six-man qualifier for the English County Finals at Kent’s Ashford Golf Club. Roope has been forced to juggle his squad for the...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 12, 2019 | News
KENT’S Steven Tiley leads by three shots at the halfway stage of Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge at Golf PGA France du Vaudreuil. The Englishman, who finished runner-up to last year’s wire-to-wire champion Richard McEvoy, followed up his opening round of 64 with a...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 11, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE captain Colin Roope will be looking to his young guns to go low in at least one of the two rounds they will play in Saturday’s ‘Six-man Qualifier,’ in Kent. Billy McKenzie, who made a very nervy debut in the event six years ago, made the last 32 in The...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 3, 2019 | News
CHELMSFORD teenager Curtis Knipes enjoyed the day of his golfing life to qualify for The 148th Open at Royal Portrush at his first attempt. Twelve players from a starting field of 288 at four venues across the country qualified for golf’s original championship through...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 3, 2019 | News
SUSSEX reigning English Amateur champion Thomas Thurloway was one of a number of amateurs to have a great day at Final Qualfying for the 148th Open Championship at Royal Portrush, later this month, finishing in the top three at Notts Golf Club’s Holinwell. The England...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 1, 2019 | News
HOYLAKE’S Matthew Jordan claimed his first professional win at the Italian Challenge Open Eneos Motor Oil, beating Lorenzo Scalise in a play-off at Terre dei Consoli Golf Club. Jordan and home favourite Scalise headed to the 150-yard par three 16th hole, having carded...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 26, 2019 | News
THE England selectors have announced the men’s team that will bid to win the European Amateur Team Championship for a record 13th time when they tee it up at Sweden’s Ljunghusen GC, next month. The six-man squad is packed with champions to challenge for the...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | Jun 25, 2019 | News
UNBEATEN Hampshire will face Sussex this weekend without their three Rowlands Castle aces – including Darren Wright and Billy McKenzie, who have both represented England on the international stage. But captain Colin Roope, from Blackmoor, believes he can actually...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | Jun 22, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE Colts roared back from an early deficit to get new manager Nat Riddett’s managerial reign off to winning start with a 71/2-41/2 win against Surrey, at Sherfield Oaks. The Shanklin & Sandown greenkeeper watched his players struggle in the morning...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | Jun 19, 2019 | News
SEVENTEEN England players made it through into the matchplay phase of the British Amateur Championship, after 36 holes of qualifying at Dublin’s Portmarnock and The Island GC. Leading the qualifiers was Yeovil’s Tom Plumb, who shot a second round 71 at Portmarnock on...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | Jun 15, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE Colts kick-off their South East League campaign against Surrey, on Sunday, with a new manager in the shape of Shanklin & Sandown’s Nat Riddett. The 28-year-old, who works as a greenkeeper at Shanklin, has been a regular category one player in Hampshire...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | Jun 13, 2019 | News
Toby Burden lost in his first two Hampshire Isle of Wight and Channel Islands final appearances – including one at Hayling in 2006. Back then he was working as a greenkeeping assistant – he and fellow member Mark Thistleton had to get up before dawn and help prepare...
