by Andrew Griffin | Jun 14, 2024 | Challenge League, Hampshire, News, South East
HARRISON Pake is targeting going one better than his predecessor after taking over the reins of Hampshire’s Challenge League side, which now acts as the feeder to the county men’s team. Last year county captain Lawrence Cherry, from Stoneham GC, became the...
by Andrew Griffin | May 24, 2024 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
LAWRENCE Cherry will bow out as Hampshire’s captain on Sunday, just three months into his second season in the role – having landed his dream job in Dubai. The 27-year-old – who moved to North Hants as assistant general manager in September 2022 – is moving to one of...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 16, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News, Order of Merit, South East
DARREN Walkley suffered heartbreak on countback for the second time in a year, as he missed out on the biggest win of his amateur career by a whisker. Liphook GC’s former player on Europe’s mini-pro tours lost out by virtue of a worse score in the Hampshire Hog, as...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 16, 2024 | England, Hampshire, National, News, Order of Merit, South East
THE amateur career of Connor Bell has largely been played in the shadow of his older brother Jonathan, who was an England Boys international as a teenager, having been crowned a Wee Wonders Champion several times before he was even 11. But now it is the turn of the...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 18, 2023 | Challenge League, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE were denied a first South East double since 1994 as Essex snatched the Challenge League trophy out of their hands in a see-saw final at Mill Hill GC, on Sunday. For the second time in five years Sam Parsons was leading by one with two holes to play in a...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 10, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News, South East, Uncategorized
LAWRENCE Cherry became the youngest county captain to pick up the Daily Telegraph Salver in 60 years, with a comprehensive victory over Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire in the South East League Final, on Sunday. After Cherry’s side had wrapped up a crushing 81/2-31/2...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 7, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
TEST Valley’s Stuart Archibald is confident Hampshire can mark the 60th anniversary of the first South East League Final by landing the Daily Telegraph Salver for the first time in 11 years when they face Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire, on Sunday. The three-time EuroPro...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 7, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
BLACKMOOR’S Sam Parsons is determined to make up for lost time having regained his place in the Hampshire team in time for this Sunday’s South East League Final against Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire (B.B.&O.). Five years ago, he was the last player out on the...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 6, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News, South East, Uncategorized
HAMPSHIRE captain Lawrence Cherry will lead his team in search of a first South East League Final victory in 11 years when they tackle Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire, on Sunday. The golfer, who is assistant manager at Fleet’s North Hants GC, will have to field a team...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 21, 2023 | Hampshire, League, National, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE were crowned South Division champions for the first time since 2018 – without hitting a single shot on Sunday. Kent beat Surrey in the final league match of the season 9-3 at Rochester & Cobham – leaving all three teams tied at the top of the table with...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 20, 2023 | Challenge League, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE reached their second South East Final in a week as Lawrence Cherry led his team to the South Division title in the Challenge League, with a comfortable win away to Kent on Sunday. Hampshire only needed a draw to reach October’s South East Challenge League...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 7, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
THE reign of South Division champions Surrey will go to the final match of the South East League after they got the better of Lawrence Cherry’s Hampshire team at Blackmoor GC, on Sunday. Maintaining their 100 per cent record after wins against Kent and Sussex, would...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 5, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE will be able to call upon their at least one of their top US college stars when they face Surrey, on Sunday, in a showdown for a place in October’s South East League Final. County captain Lawrence Cherry, the youngest at 26 since the position was created in...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 17, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE produced their best performance at the South East Qualifier in six years – missing out on a place in the English County Finals by 11 shots, at Farleigh GC, on Saturday. Their second-place finish behind newly-crowned champions Kent was their best since their...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 14, 2023 | Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE captain Lawrence Cherry will go into this weekend’s South East Qualifier for the English County Finals without two of his big guns in his Six-man team. But the absence of both four-time county champion Ryan Henley and Darren Walkley – the man the...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 27, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
US OPEN winner and Ryder Cup ace Justin Rose hailed Hampshire’s sterling comeback to snuff out Sussex to the memory of the county’s former president and secretary Keith Maplesden. The one-time teenage Hampshire prodigy dedicted the victory to his long-time friend...
by Andrew Griffin | May 19, 2023 | Colts, Hampshire, League, News, South East
COUNTY captain Lawrence Cherry will be a spectator for Hampshire’s first of the new South East Challenge League matches – against Sussex – at Army Golf Club, on Sunday. The Challenge League has replaced the old South East Colts League – first competed for back in 1974...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 14, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit, South East
THE story of how Justin Rose announced his great talents by winning the Hampshire Hog as a 14-year-old nearly 30 years ago has been inspiring junior golfers across the county ever since. Within three years, the North Hants GC member, from Hook, became the...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 12, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit, South East
THE Selborne Salver honours board is peppered with some of the great names in amateur golf, who have gone on to have big successes in the pro ranks. Ross Fisher and Andy Sullivan have played Ryder Cups in the last 13 years while last year’s US Open winner Matt...
by Andrew Griffin | Mar 1, 2023 | Colts, Hampshire, News, South East
PART of new Hampshire Golf captain Lawrence Cherry’s “mini-revolution” will see him being able to blood new players in the new South East Challenge League. England Golf’s South East Group voted to scrap the U26 league – which had been reduce to just five teams from...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 13, 2022 | Colts, Hampshire, League, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE Colts manager Lawrence Cherry believes getting his foursomes pairings right will be the key to winning the South East U26 League for the first time since 2016, when they face Bedfordshire on Sunday. Cherry, who was on the losing team against Essex in last...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 1, 2022 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE suffered one of the heaviest defeats in their South East League history as Surrey claimed a 101/2-11/2 win at Coombe Hill, on Sunday, to leave the visitors with just one win in their four South Division games in 2022. The final match in the South Division...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 30, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
STONEHAM’S Elliot Groves spends most of the summer travelling the length and breadth of the UK watching players he has helped – or is helping – find golf scholarships in the States. Having played professional golf on the PGA South and Hampshire PGA circuit having...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 26, 2022 | Colts, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE Colts manager Lawrence Cherry steered his side home to beat Kent after winning the final game left out on the course at Sittingborne and Milton Regis GC, on Sunday. And the last-gasp win over Kent’s Callum Abbott in the last of the eight singles game meant...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 8, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT GC’s George Saunders will chase individual glory in a bid to propel Hampshire to the English County Finals for the first time since 2017 when they play in the South East Qualifier (SEQ) in Suffolk, on Saturday. The former England U16 international...
