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 | Sep 18, 2019 | News
COUNTY champion Toby Burden became the first Hampshire player to be crowned England’s Champion of Champion after a dramatic play-off against Somerset’s Jake McGoldrick. The former EuroPro Tour player from Hayling Golf Club, completed a club, county and country treble...
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 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...