by Andrew Griffin | Aug 24, 2026 | Boys, Hampshire, National, News
FOR the previous 18 months back in the mid-1990s, Justin Rose had made people sit up and take notice of the tall teenager from Hook. Rose was able to mix it with not just the best junior talents in the country, but also beat many of the leading men’s amateurs as well....
by Andrew Griffin | Jul 30, 2026 | England, National, News
FOUR Hampshire players made it through to the matchplay knockout at the English Amateur Championship at Staffordshire’s Beau Desert. Hartley Wintney’s two-time US junior college winner Charlie Preston led the way in the 36-hole qualifier played at Beau Desert and...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 4, 2026 | Championship, England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit, South East, Uncategorized
IT’S MORE than 40 years since any amateur has successfully defended the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Amateur Championship – leaving last year’s winner Joe Buenfeld with a mountain to climb. But having waited three long years to grab the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup at...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 6, 2024 | Hampshire, League, News, South East
JAMES Knight – the one member of the Hampshire side that claimed the county’s first English County Championship still playing elite amateur golf 28 years later – has spoken for the first time about Essex “stealing” the South East League title from them in 1996....
by Andrew Griffin | Aug 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
NORTH Hants Albie Beeston admitted he had never felt as nervous as when he stood over a two-footer to win a play-off and complete the double as Hampshire’s new Boys and U16 Champion, at Weybrook Park. He produced a birdie four at the first extra-hole on the hottest...
