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...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 8, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
MARTIN Young is about to extend his lead with the most appearances in the South East Qualifier for the English County Finals, when Hampshire tee it up at Bury St Edmunds, on Saturday. The Brokenhurst Manor veteran, who is 52, has played in every six-man qualifier...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 4, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
TEST Valley’s new Logan Trophy winner Stuart Archibald admitted he was set to throw in the towel and walk-in with five holes to play – after a horror slip on the tee left him in agonising back pain. The 38-year-old former EuroPro Tour winner lost his footing hitting...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 1, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News, South East, Uncategorized
FORMER EuroPro and MENA Tour winner Stuart Archibald topped the leaderboard after the first round of the Logan Trophy, at Liphook GC. Archibald is the reigning Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Mid-Amateur Champion after his win at Brokenhurst Manor, in...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 29, 2022 | England, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, News, South East
STONEHAM’S Ryan Moody’s bid to become the first amateur from Hampshire to come through Final Qualifying since Justin Rose in 1998 – and earn a spot in the 150th Open at St Andrews – ended in disappointment. The former mini-tour pro, who is taking up a PGA position at...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 28, 2022 | Boys, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE will send a relatively inexperienced team to Wednesday’s South East Boys Qualifier at London’s Hendon GC. It is six years since Hampshire qualified for the English Boys Finals – having contested them three times in four years from 2012-2015, with the likes...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 21, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
STONEHAM’S Ryan Moody is through to Final Open Qualifying after finishing tied in fourth place at The Buckinghamshire in Regional Qualifying on Monday. The runner-up in last year’s Hampshire Order of Merit who reached the semi-finals of the county championship for a...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 20, 2022 | England, News, South East
NORTH Hants GC’s Charlie Forster finished fifth in The Berkshire Trophy – one of England’s most historic and important amateur strokeplay championships – on Sunday. The 19-year-old, who is the reigning Hampshire Junior Champion after his victory last summer just days...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 17, 2022 | England, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE’S young guns are bidding for glory at the Berkshire Trophy – one of the country’s most famous and historic amateur competitions – which gets under way at The Berkshire Golf Club on Saturday morning. Rowlands Castle’s Billy McKenzie became just the third...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 11, 2022 | Colts, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE Colts have the chance to gain some revenge for two final defeats in a row when they entertain Essex – the reigning South East Champions – at Barton-on-Sea GC, on Sunday. But they will have to do it without the two players who starred in last month’s county...
by Andrew Griffin | May 10, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE captain Neil Dawson was a proud skipper after watching his team bounce back from last week’s Kent defeat with a demolition job against Dorset, winning 10-2 at Liphook GC. The North Hants GC member knew that anything but a big win would effectively kill their...
by Andrew Griffin | May 7, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
AFTER Rowlands Castle’s former England international Darren Wright lost 4&3 to Kent’s Conor Byers, Hampshire still had a glimmer of hope to pinch a draw in their first league game of the season at North Foreland. Defeat for Wright, one of just 10 players to have...
by Andrew Griffin | May 7, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE captain Neil Dawson knows that nothing less than three wins – starting with this weekend clash with Dorset – will do if his side are to make the South East League Final for the first time in four years. A disappointing 8-4 defeat at the hands of Kent on...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 29, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
STONEHAM’S Ryan Henley is set to make his first league appearance for Hampshire in some six years when Neil Dawson’s team travel to Kent this weekend. The Southampton-based has been a standout amateur having won three county championships in nine years and appeared in...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 29, 2022 | Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE face a different challenge at the start of their campaign this weekend as they bid to reach the South East League Final for the first time since 2018. County captain Neil Dawson has to prepare his eight-man team for back-to-back fixtures – thanks to a...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 17, 2021 | Boys, Hampshire, News, South East
HAMPSHIRE Boys will contest their first South East U18 League Final at the sixth attempt when they go head-to-head with Bedfordshire and B.B.&O. at Halesworth GC, on Sunday. Newport GC’s Hampshire junior manager Wayne Matthews will take his eight-strong team to...
