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Cross shows women golfers the way

A great roll up of lady golfers were out on the Cobar Golf Course on Saturday when their 2020 season recommenced. A field of 16 players took to the course for the Stableford round with Daphne Cross showing the way posting 38 points for the win. Countbacks were needed to […]

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Austin wins the 2020 WesTrac Cobar Cup

The Cobar Miners Race Club annual Autumn racing event took place on Saturday at the Dalton Park Horse Sports Complex minus the usual large crowd of spectators. Due to the government’s COVID-19 crowd restrictions, spectators were banned from attending the race meeting however the committee was still keen to see […]

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Golfers relieved to be back on course

The resumption of the men’s competition golf on the weekend was met with some relief with players keen to get back on the course. However, only seven hardy golfers braved the conditions for a Stroke event on Saturday and the scores resembled Don Bradman’s batting average rather than competitive golf […]

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Enough rugby greats to fill two teams

The Cobar Weekly invited Rugby Union stalwart, Kevin ‘Rusty’ Mitchell to pick Cobar’s Best Rugby Team which he found pretty hard going and so Rusty selected enough players for two sides. “There are so many good players here I could not forecast the winner if they played each other,” Rusty […]

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Options thrown about for netball

The Cobar Netball Association is keen to start their 2020 season and has been making contingency plans ready to put into place when they are given the green light for sporting competitions to recommence. Netball competitions, like all other team sports, have been banned under the government’s COVID-19 social distancing […]

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Competition golf to recommence

The local golf competition is scheduled to start again this weekend with a revised format. It’s over a month since the last competition game of golf was played and a lot of players having been champing at the bit for the course to open again. Some players have kept in […]

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A team of Cobar’s best netballers

Local respected netball umpire Sue Francisco was invited by The Cobar Weekly to choose a netball team as part of our ‘Cobar’s Greatest Sporting Teams’ series. Sue joined in the local netball competition when she first came to Cobar in 1982. “I hadn’t played netball for many years because my […]