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...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | 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 griffinongolf_pz6m3p | 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...
by griffinongolf_pz6m3p | Jun 6, 2019 | News
A NUMBER of players will be looking to impress county captain Colin Roope at this weekend’s county championship at Aldershot’s Army Golf Club. Blackmoor member Roope has to pick an eight-man team to face Sussex in the South East League, at North Hants, at the end of...