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...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | Jun 13, 2019 | News
NEWLY-crowned county champion Toby Burden has revealed the secret behind his success in beating Hampshire captain Colin Roope 6&5 in the final at Army Golf Club, on Sunday. His best friend in golf – Elliot Groves, who caddied for him in the 2009 final, gave him a...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | Jun 7, 2019 | News
SHANKLIN and Sandown’s Jordan Sundborg has the chance to become the most successful Isle of Wight golfer some 90 years at the county championship this weekend. The Stirling University student who claimed the British Universities and Colleges Sport’s Order of Merit...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | Jun 6, 2019 | News
A NUMBER of players will be looking to impress county captain Colin Roope at this weekend’s county championship at Aldershot’s Army Golf Club. Blackmoor member Roope has to pick an eight-man team to face Sussex in the South East League, at North Hants, at the end of...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | Jun 4, 2019 | News
IT IS 70 years ago that 17-year-old Paddy Hine, from Stoneham Golf Club, wrote history in Hampshire and England’s amateur golf records by completing a unique treble – claiming the county championship and England’s Boys’ and Men’s Strokeplay titles in the same season....
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | Jun 3, 2019 | News
SIXTEEN-year-old Ben Schmidt became the youngest-ever winner of the Brabazon Trophy – winning by five shots at Leeds’ Alwoodley Golf Club, on Sunday – 70 years after it was first won by a 17-year-old. Schmidt pips major winners Sandy Lyle and Charl Schwartzel, who...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | May 31, 2019 | News
HANBURY Manor’s Dominic Clemons claimed a spot in the Carris Trophy after winning the South East Group Junior Championship at Burhill. Last year’s Hertfordshire Boys Champion, who is also a past Scottish U14 Champion, shot rounds of 72 and 70 on Burhill’s New Course...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | May 27, 2019 | News
HAMPSHIRE made it two wins out of two in the South East League South Division after an 8-4 win over Kent at Redlibbets, close to the Brands Hatch motor racing circuit. Any fears Hampshire would miss Billy McKenzie at the top of the order while the Rowlands Castle...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | May 20, 2019 | News
OWEN Grimes must wish he was defending his Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship crown at Hockley instead of Aldershot’s Army Golf Club next month. For the former Murray State University golfer who stunned the cream of the county by beating...
