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Moody dreams of qualifying for 150th Open at St Andrews
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...
Forster finishes fifth at Berkshire Trophy
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...
Hampshire young guns aiming for Berkshire Trophy win
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...
Cherry’s picks minus top talents for Essex clash
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...
Stoneham – all four semi-finalists for Sloane-Stanley showdown
STONEHAM Golf Club provided all four semi-finalists in the 117th Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship, after their members dominated Saturday’s quarter-finals. Harrison Pake – the least well-known of the quartet – ended Hayling’s Toby...
Moody made up by Pechell Salver win
RYAN Moody has only one reason to be playing in this weekend’s 117th Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship – it is his last chance to claim the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup. The county crown will be awarded to the winner of Sunday’s final...
Stoneham changes challenging county championship field
STONEHAM, which will host the county championship for the first time in more than a decade from May 27-29, has undergone a multi-million pound investment programme over the last decade, which was completed last year. Ryan Henley, who has won the club championship...
Henley happy for chance to join exclusive club
STONEHAM’S Ryan Henley has a very big chance to make some Hampshire Golf history and join a very exclusive club this weekend. For the three-time winner of the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup can become one of just five players to have won the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and...
James Freeman chalks up first men’s win in Delhi Cup
STONEHAM’S James Freeman claimed his first men’s open title by winning Hockley’s Delhi Cup in the first Hampshire Order of Merit event of the season. And the two-time Hampshire Junior Champion had to fend off former England U16 international George Saunders and...
Delhi Cup: Can young stars see off old guard?
THE Hampshire Order of Merit gets under way on Saturday with the first qualifying event – the Delhi Cup at Hockley GC – which features four members of the Hampshire first-team that put Dorset to the sword at Liphook GC, on Sunday. County captain Neil Dawson is in the...
Dorset demolition puts Dawson’s men back in title race
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...
Bottom two’s Burden as Kent held on for points after Wright loss
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...
Defiant Dawson deems Dorset clash ‘must win’
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...
Chance encounter led to Ryan Henley returning to fold
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...
Dawson’s faith in foursomes for Hampshire trip to Kent
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...
Blackmoor’s Mark Burgess believes more Selborne Salver glory is in reach
MARK Burgess will be hoping the hard work put in so far this year by the Hampshire first-team squad will boost his chances of becoming just the second player ever to win the Selborne Salver twice. Burgess, who delighted scores of Blackmoor members at the East...
After two-year break Hampshire Hog is back and Dawson can’t wait
THE Hampshire Hog will forever be remembered as the event at which a 14-year-old Justin Rose first announced his prodigious talents to the world of golf. The Hog was first played for back in 1957 and Rose became the youngest-ever winner in 1995 – and within two years...
Cams Hall claim first County Sevens title despite selection crisis
CAMS Hall overcame a selection crisis to land the prestigious County Sevens title, beating mighty Stoneham in the final at Bramshaw Golf Club, on Sunday. As Europe’s Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington was sending out his battered golfers for the Sunday singles at...
Matthews and son pin hopes on first South East U18 League Final win
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...
Historic treble after Courage on last hole pays off for Burden
HAYLING’S Toby Burden became the first player ever to claim the treble by winning the Courage Trophy, Cole Scuttle and the Hampshire Order of Merit in one go. Victory by a shot over Rowlands Castle’s Darren Wright and Stoneham’s Ryan Moody – denying the latter the...
Burden buzzing at prospect of winning Cullen Quaich
TOBY Burden can point to his fair share of bad luck since the COVID pandemic hit golf nearly 18 months ago. He has been beaten by a birdie on the 18th in the last two finals of the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship. But in 2020, defeat...
Young ready to add to Mid-Amateur titles record
BROKENURST Manor’s Martin Young will also be looking to win his 11th Hampshire Mid-Amateur Championship – and his fourth in a row – when the county’s over 35s event is held as part of the Courage Trophy, on Sunday. Last year, the Brokenhurst veteran who has won more...
Ryan’s in the Mood-y to retain Courage Trophy
ONLY three players have won the Courage Trophy back-to-back in its 59-year history. But Stoneham’s Ryan Moody knows if he can retain the Hampshire strokeplay title he won 12 months ago on his home course, greater glory probably awaits. For the 30-year-old Southampton...
Young equals Henley’s Stoneham Trophy wins record
DESPITE a lowly finish by his standards in the Mike Smith Memorial Trophy, where he had to settle for ninth, Martin Young went on to claim the Stoneham Trophy 24 hours later. Young blew away most of the field with a first round 67, having got to the turn in six-under...
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