The English Golf Union will visit long established clubs as well as pastures new for their two blue riband events in 2013. In the 2013 fixtures just released, Frilford Heath in Oxfordshire will host the English Amateur Championship in July while the Brabazon Trophy will be played at The London Club in Kent in June. [...]
The latest event in the TP Tour Series saw the players visit the magnificent Moor Park, in Hertfordshire. The condition and presentation of the course was just as splendid as the grand clubhouse, with many players saying that the greens were amongst the best that they have played all year. With a number of [...]
The Wiltshire Golf Partnership have attended the Calne rugby Club open day again this year. Our aim is to introduce people that are already interested in sports to come and try golf. We had a great response from youngsters parents and players from the rugby club. We have now organised a taster event for the [...]
Following an amazing 62 by Ali on the first day of the PGA West Player’s Championship around his home course at Cumberwell, setting a new course record, Ali followed up with a 1 under par 70 to clinch the title by a single shot. Coming up the last 1 shot ahead, Ali favoured a 2 [...]
Richard Wallis (Walmer & Kingsdown) kept a cool head to shoot an eight-under-par total of 136 and win the Tylney Park Classic, the fourth tournament in the Virgin AtlanticPGASouth Region Order of Merit. Leading after one round with a bogey-free six-under-par 66, Wallis was a stroke in front of Ben Daniels (Chipstead) on 67. In [...]
The Hampshire girls’ team won the South region junior county match week for the first time when the event was hosted by Kent at Rochester & Cobham Park. The team was: Sarah Bradshaw (Stoneham), Emma Allen (Meon Valley), Charlotte and Laura Barrow (Brokenhurst Manor), Danielle Burrell (Weybrook Park), Janet Cuschieri (Hockley), Sammi Keen (Freshwater Bay) [...]
The legacy of late golf great Seve Ballesteros lived on in a special charity competition hosted by Thornbury Golf Centre (www.thornburygc.co.uk). Some £1,179 was raised for the Seve Ballesteros Foundation, which is supporting Cancer Research UK, in men’s and ladies’ events at the public pay-and-play facility, part of Burhill Golf and Leisure, the UK’s leading [...]
In 1962 Hugh Campbell managed to reduce his handicap from 18 to 15. For the first time, since then, it returned to 15 in July 2011, a gap of 49 years. However only one week later he played in the Ross on Wye Seniors Open for 55 + Men and astounded not only himself, but [...]
