by Andrew Griffin | Oct 12, 2024 | Challenge League, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE will bid to complete the South East double for only the second time in their history when they face Essex in the second-ever Channel League Final. The two teams meet for a second-year running but Hampshire captain Harrison Pake will be hoping to go one...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 6, 2024 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
JAMES Knight – the one member of the Hampshire side that claimed the county’s first English County Championship still playing elite amateur golf 28 years later – has spoken for the first time about Essex “stealing” the South East League title from them in 1996....
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 5, 2024 | Hampshire, News, South East
THERE is one thing on Justin Rose’s glorious CV covering his days as an amateur and tour pro that might still rankle nearly 30 years on… the 16-year-old was in the team that lost to Essex in the 1996 South East League Final (SELF) three weeks after Hampshire had been...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 24, 2024 | Challenge League, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE stand on the brink of qualifying for both of the South East League Finals this weekend, with Harrison Pake’s Challenge League side needing just a draw from their last game against Kent to make it to the October final. But the Stoneham member, who took over...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 9, 2024 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
TOBY Burden described defending their South Division title as one of the best days in more than 20 years playing golf for the county. Having made his men’s league debut back in 2006 after several years in the county junior ranks, Toby’s greater experience in the...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 8, 2024 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
TOBY Burden led from the front and the rear to book Hampshire’s place in October’s South East League Final by saving his team from defeat against Surrey at Hindhead, in their final South Division match of the season. The 6-6 draw meant Surrey cannot overtake the...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 24, 2024 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE’S new captain Toby Burden was full of praise for Brokenhurst Manor after he claimed the winning point as his team romped to a 10-2 victory over Sussex, on Sunday. Burden, who stepped up from his vice-captain’s role last month when Stoneham’s Lawrence Cherry...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 24, 2024 | Hampshire, News, South East, Uncategorized
TOBY Burden has become the first Hayling member to become captain of Hampshire, Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands in the role’s 74-year history. The 36-year-old, who made his first-team debut for Hampshire in 2006 – has stepped up from his vice-captaincy role...
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...
