by Andrew Griffin | May 13, 2023 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
DARREN Walkley believes his experience of playing Hayling’s windy links has given him the edge when it comes to winning his two Delhi Cups at Hockley Golf Club. The hilltop course is perched on top of Twyford Down, above the M3 cutting on the outskirts of Winchester...
by Andrew Griffin | May 12, 2023 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
DARREN Walkley insists he is not setting himself any targets as the Hampshire Order of Merit heads to Hockley GC, on Saturday – a venue where he was won the Delhi Cup twice already in his career. The best Hampshire amateurs are heading to Twyford Down for the 36-hole...
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 21, 2021 | Hampshire, News
IT TOOK a former county first-team player in the shape of Ben Wall to deny the amateurs a third win in a row against the professionals at the Hampshire Open. Wall, who played in the South East League Final against Essex in 2014, knows the links at Hayling well as a...
by Andrew Griffin | Sep 3, 2020 | Hampshire, News
THERE are seven past champions in the field for today’s 36-hole qualifier at the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship. But there are just two players who have won the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup over the county’s illustrious links course...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | Jun 13, 2019 | News
Toby Burden lost in his first two Hampshire Isle of Wight and Channel Islands final appearances – including one at Hayling in 2006. Back then he was working as a greenkeeping assistant – he and fellow member Mark Thistleton had to get up before dawn and help prepare...