by Andrew Griffin | Jun 11, 2024 | Championship, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S defending champions’s hopes of writing even more pages in the record books were undone by Blackmoor’s Sam Parsons, whose 3&1 victory prevented Ryan Henley from becoming the second most successful player in the county championship’s 130-year history....
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 5, 2023 | Courage Trophy
DARREN Walkley holed a 45-foot birdie putt to snatch the Courage Trophy from five-time champion Martin Young in a dramatic climax to the Hampshire Golf season – and confirm his victory in the county Order of Merit. Young had just made a bogey four on the island green...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 26, 2023 | Boys, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S Future Champions Tour has been dubbed a great success by the county’s junior organisers who are keen to grow the grassroots game – and hopefully find the next Justin Rose for good measure. A series of events for players aged U12 – both...
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 8, 2023 | Hampshire, News
SOME of Hampshire’s most successful golfers have led the tributes to Liphook’s former county golf union secretary and president Keith Maplesden, whose funeral was held last week. Sam Hutsby, who grew up as a junior at Lee-on-the-Solent GC, and two-time county champion...
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...
