Rod Gilmour

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Rod Gilmour |James Corrigan

Ireland's John Doyle will never forget how he kickstarted his 2025 season in blistering fashion by securing impressive back-to-back victories in just 12 days at Cork Golf Club. The 17-year-old's first came in April's wire-to-wire success at the Flogas Irish Boys Amateur, when his opening 65 thrust him to the top of the qualifying leaderboard for the Justin Rose Telegraph Junior Golf Championship, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.

1 week ago | thehockeypaper.co.uk | Rod Gilmour

President Tayyab Ikram has seemingly strengthened his grip at the helm of world hockey after the FIH appointed several positions without a new CEO in place. The FIH has been without a CEO since Thierry Weil left Lausanne in November 2023 and Ikram admitting to THP last year that the world governing body was in no rush to seek a replacement. Last week, the FIH appointed Mike Joyce as its new director general, having headed the FIH’s education and development department for the last seven years.

1 week ago | thehockeypaper.co.uk | Rod Gilmour

Crystal Palace’s hockey pitch was once an ‘impossibly’ slick surface as the advent of astro came to fruition. According to players at the time, lower division players found it hard to weight passes while goalkeepers wore little more than cricket pads. Yet, the midweek floodlight leagues attracted London’s top sides while it became an attractive property indoors and on TV. Spool forward two decades and Usain Bolt and athletics stars once used the sandy pitch as a warm-up track. Continue reading...

1 week ago | thehockeypaper.co.uk | Rod Gilmour

Lee Valley — Wimbledon’s Jack Turner admitted to a “very different feeling” from the last time he faced Germany in an England shirt. It came eight years ago “in front of about 10 people” during his senior debut in a tri series in South Africa. On Sunday, he lined up as England attempted to make further inroads on Pro League leaders the Netherlands.

1 week ago | thehockeypaper.co.uk | Rod Gilmour

Lee Valley — Two of English hockey’s greats were on the pitch at half-time as Laura Roper was presented with a photo collage by her former captain Hollie Pearne-Webb here on Sunday. “If you put in hard work it will get you a long way,” said Roper, when asked to impart some wisdom to aspiring players.