HERITAGE

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The Heritage of Brokenhurst Manor Golf Club
The Golf Club is renowned for its superb course set in beautiful natural
surroundings and the famous golfers that have enjoyed playing the course.
The Club also has many amateur members who have distinguished themselves:
- In 1931 the Ryder Cup Team played a 36 hole competition (with
the American ball!) at Brokenhurst Manor before sailing to the
U.S.A. from Southampton.
- Henry Cotton who had three victories in the British Open in 1934,
1937 qnd 1948, recorded the then remarkable score of 62 that
hit the national sporting headlines at the Club in 1939
- Kevin Weeks, in 1987 won the English Championship and for two
seasons played for England together with being Captain of the
Hampshire County team.
- We remember Mike Smith 18 year old winner of the British Youth
Championship in 1988, a great golfing talent, who was tragically
killed in a car accident.
- Kevin, Mike and Nigel Graves (British Amateur Semi Finalist in
1988), won both the English and European Club Championships,
Brokenhurst Manor being the first English Club to become European
Champions.
- Club members have been selected for a very successful Hampshire,
Isle of Wight and Channel Island team. These include Jonathan
and Martin Young, (who played for England in Mexico in 2003) and
Jonathan
Watt who at 17 was Captain of the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and
Channel Island Junior Team.
- The current Course Record is 63, jointly held by Justin Rose
and Richard Bland, who both play on the European Tour with Justin
spending
the majority of his time playing on the U.S.A Tour.
- Brokenhurst Manor Golf Club Male members won England Champions
Club title in 2007
- In 2008 Liz Bennett, member of BMGC, won the South Atlantic Ladies
Amateur Championship and became the first British player to take
the title since 1994.
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