by Andrew Griffin | Jun 10, 2023 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News, Uncategorized
FIVE past champions who have claimed the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup made it through to the quarter-finals of the 118th Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship, at Hockley GC, on Saturday. That stat had Hampshire Golf officials looking...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 9, 2023 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
THE race to be crowned the 118th Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Champion begins today (Friday) at Hockley – the scene of one of the championship’s most remarkable finals thanks to Martin Young. Hockley, set high up on Twyford Down overlooking the...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 8, 2023 | Championship, Hampshire, News
THE first-ever winner of the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Amateur Championship was Scotland’s Freddie Tait back in April 1894 – some 27 years before the champion received the Sloane-Stanley Challenge Cup for the first time. The tall Scotsman, who would...
by Andrew Griffin | Jun 1, 2023 | Championship, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News, Seniors
STONEHAM’S James Pinchon claimed his first Hampshire Seniors title coming back from two shots behind with a round to play, to overhaul halfway leader Dave Edmunds, at Tylney Park, on Wednesday. Pinchon shot a round of 79 – only bettered by clubmate Alan Mew, who...
by Andrew Griffin | May 30, 2023 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News, Seniors
LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT’s Dave Edmunds has a two-shot lead going into the second round of the Hampshire Seniors Championship at Tylney Park. A regular member of Hampshire’s Seniors team since helping his club to the final of the County Sevens four years ago, Edmunds has...
by Andrew Griffin | May 26, 2023 | Hampshire, League, News
COUNTY captain Lawrence Cherry will attempt to improve on Hampshire’s recent record against Kent when the two teams clash at Liphook, on Sunday. The stakes are high this season after Dorset pulled out of the South East League after a 27-year stay, opting to join the...
by Andrew Griffin | May 26, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S former England U16 international George Saunders spoke about his desire to play in this week’s Brabazon Trophy – after missing out in last week’s South Qualifier held at Golf at Goodwood, a course where he is a member. Saunders was desperate to qualify for...
by Andrew Griffin | May 25, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News
LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT GC’s George Saunders was left sweating overnight on his chances of playing in the Brabazon Trophy at Sunningdale’s prestigious New Course. But his prayers were answered when Estonia’s Carl Hellat pulled out on Thursday morning, giving Hampshire’s...
by Andrew Griffin | May 19, 2023 | Colts, Hampshire, League, News, South East
COUNTY captain Lawrence Cherry will be a spectator for Hampshire’s first of the new South East Challenge League matches – against Sussex – at Army Golf Club, on Sunday. The Challenge League has replaced the old South East Colts League – first competed for back in 1974...
by Andrew Griffin | May 15, 2023 | Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
THEY call it the nappy factor in golf gambling – backing players on the American and European Tours, who have recently become fathers, especially for the first time, to win their first title, or one of the big events such as a Major. Well for Stoneham’s former pro...
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 | Apr 24, 2023 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE captain Lawrence Cherry’s faith in introducing new blood into the county first-team was rewarded with a one-point victory over the Channel Islands, on Sunday. The youngest captain in Hampshire Golf’s post-war history included himself for the trip to Royal...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 21, 2023 | Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S youngest captain in more than 75 years will send his first team out into action against the Channel Islands at Royal Jersey, on Saturday. Stoneham’s 26-year-old Lawrence Cherry, who took over from Neil Dawson back in February, will blood three debutants in...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 14, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit
NORTH Hants Golf Club’s big weekend gets under way with the Hampshire Hog dinner on Friday night, when DP World Tour Ryder Cup director Guy Kinnings is the guest at the event’s annual dinner. Kinnings spent many years working for IMG, the worldwide sports management...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 14, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit, South East
THE story of how Justin Rose announced his great talents by winning the Hampshire Hog as a 14-year-old nearly 30 years ago has been inspiring junior golfers across the county ever since. Within three years, the North Hants GC member, from Hook, became the...
by Andrew Griffin | Apr 12, 2023 | England, Hampshire, News, Order of Merit, South East
THE Selborne Salver honours board is peppered with some of the great names in amateur golf, who have gone on to have big successes in the pro ranks. Ross Fisher and Andy Sullivan have played Ryder Cups in the last 13 years while last year’s US Open winner Matt...
by Andrew Griffin | Mar 1, 2023 | Colts, Hampshire, News, South East
PART of new Hampshire Golf captain Lawrence Cherry’s “mini-revolution” will see him being able to blood new players in the new South East Challenge League. England Golf’s South East Group voted to scrap the U26 league – which had been reduce to just five teams from...
by Andrew Griffin | Feb 28, 2023 | Hampshire, News
STONEHAM Golf Club’s Lawrence Cherry has become the youngest Hampshire captain in more than 70 years – at the tender age of 26. Having led Hampshire Colts to the South East League title as a playing captain in 2022, the former Hampshire Boys captain was voted in at...
by Andrew Griffin | Feb 11, 2023 | Hampshire, News
FIVE former county captains who have led Hampshire over the last 50 years are taking part in the anniversary fixture against Alresford GC, on Sunday. While David Harrison, a former Hampshire captain and president, will be on the home side’s team, Brokenhurst’s Martin...
by Andrew Griffin | Feb 11, 2023 | Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE Golf will kick-off the new season by taking on Alresford GC in a special match to mark 50 years of the annual club v county fixture. The 50th anniversary fell back in 2020 but the match had to be shelved – firstly because of bad weather, and then when the...
by Andrew Griffin | Nov 17, 2022 | Boys, Hampshire, News
SAM Hutsby has enjoyed the high lows of golf at both professional and amatuer level and can now look forward to another shot at the big time after his 13th place finish at the DP World Tour Qualifying School, in Spain, this week. ANDREW GRIFFIN looks backs at Sam...
by Andrew Griffin | Nov 16, 2022 | Boys, England, Hampshire, News
FORMER Hampshire U14s champion Sam Hutsby earned another shot at the big time after safely negotiating the DP World Tour‘s Qualifying School this afternoon, The Portsmouth-born golfer – who lost to Rickie Fowler in the singles at the 2009 Walker Cup – made it a...
by Andrew Griffin | Nov 1, 2022 | Boys, Channel Islands, Hampshire, News
HAMPSHIRE’S crop of elite junior players have just returned from their first overseas training trip, having enjoyed three days‘ intense competition in Portugal. At the end of his first season in charge of the U18 and U16 squads Hampshire Golf junior manager Dave...
by Andrew Griffin | Oct 31, 2022 | Boys, Championship, Hampshire, News
ROWLANDS Castle’s James Plater followed in the footsteps of Justin Rose by claiming silverware at both the Hampshire Junior Championship and the county schools tournament in the same season. The 16-year-old – who is now off scratch – shot one of the lowest rounds in...