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 Andrew Griffin | 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...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 13, 2019 | News
NEWLY-crowned county champion Toby Burden has revealed the secret behind his success in beating Hampshire captain Colin Roope 6&5 in the final at Army Golf Club, on Sunday. His best friend in golf – Elliot Groves, who caddied for him in the 2009 final, gave him a...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 7, 2019 | News
SHANKLIN and Sandown’s Jordan Sundborg has the chance to become the most successful Isle of Wight golfer some 90 years at the county championship this weekend. The Stirling University student who claimed the British Universities and Colleges Sport’s Order of Merit...
