\n Harry Oatley, from Osborne Golf Club, clinched the U16 handicap title and the Willard Trophy at the Hampshire Junior Championships at Hockley Golf Club in Twyford Down.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 19-handicapper from the Isle of Wight delivered a standout performance with a nett-par 66, putting him five under by lunchtime.\n<\/p>\n
\n But the competition was interrupted by a thunderstorm, forcing organisers to temporarily halt play and shelter competitors in the clubhouse.\n<\/p>\n
\n Once play resumed, Harry\u00a0finished the remaining nine holes in just 31 strokes, two ahead of Romsey\u2019s Harrison Yeates.\n<\/p>\n
\n His round included four birdies in the first five holes, helping him secure the Willard Trophy.\n<\/p>\n
\n Harry’s\u00a0round also featured six birdies, two nett eagles, three bogeys, and a double bogey on the final hole.\n<\/p>\n
\n His performance placed him four shots ahead of Wellow\u2019s Tiago Fernandes, the newly crowned U14 Champion.\n<\/p>\n
\n Stoneham\u2019s Jamie Prewitt, who also shot a nett 66 in the first round, finished five strokes behind Harry on the back nine.\n<\/p>\n
\n He is the first Isle of Wight golfer to win the U16 handicap title since Campbell Laird of Shanklin and\u00a0Sandown in 2019, and only the third in the competition\u2019s history.\n<\/p>\n
\n The only other Isle of Wight winner was Ryan Harmer in 2013 while at Freshwater.\n<\/p>\n
\n Harry\u00a0was the Isle of Wight\u2019s sole representative across all five age categories this year.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Pechell Trophy was claimed by Conor McKenna of Royal Guernsey, who shot two under to beat defending champion Albie Beeston of North Hants.\n<\/p>\n
\n Shanklin\u2019s Conor Richards was the last Isle of Wight player to win the title in 2015, also at Hockley.\n<\/p>\n
\n The first was R Underwood from Freshwater in 1975.\n<\/p>\n
\n Jordan Sundborg of Shanklin remains the last Isle of Wight golfer to win the men\u2019s county championship, having done so in 2017.\n<\/p>\n
\n He also won the U14s Championship in 2011, the only Isle of Wight winner in that category since its inception in 1951.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Oatley, from Osborne Golf Club, clinched the U16 handicap title and the Willard Trophy at the Hampshire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-65022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}