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Out in the cold

The cold weather on the weekend didn’t deter the players who braved the conditions in the Men’s Golf Stableford event on Saturday and a Par event on Sunday. Apparently the cold weather doesn’t affect Greg Clark who was in the winning circle both days. The best scores out of the […]

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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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Little improvement

The second week of the Men’s Golf competition didn’t see much of an improvement in scores as golfers battled with the slow fairways and overgrown rough. While the curators have done their best with the course over the drought, after the recent rain everything has taken off on the course […]

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Small fields of golfers over the weekend

A fine weekend should have resulted in plenty of golfers enjoying the Cobar spring weather, but only a small field of four teams contested a four-ball-multiplier on Saturday while just 10 players competed in the an individual Stableford on Sunday. One of the reasons for the low numbers was that […]

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Dillon wins the Wanaaring Open

The popular Wanaaring Golf Combined Open was held on Sunday with Cobar golfers cleaning up in the prize department from the 22 contenders. Craig ‘Porky’ Dillon was the A Grade 27 hole Scratch winner with 104 off the stick. Alec Fraser (115) was runner-up after a countback from Peter ‘China’ […]

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Gilbert racks up another Cobar Open title

Chris Gilbert won his third Cobar Men’s Open golf title on Sunday after finishing two shots ahead of another previous Open winner, Greg Read. Gilbert was ahead after 18 holes in the Epiroc 2019 Men’s Golf Open but was certain the more experienced Read would catch him on the back […]

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Manns opens the weekend with a win

The Easter weekend of the men’s golf competition kicked off with a Stableford game on Friday. Steve Manns finished as the winner ahead of Greg Clark with Max Phillips third and Bian Smith was back in 4th place. Nearest the Pin prizes were won on the 3rd hole by Peter […]

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Golfie acknowledges its sporting achievers

The Cobar Bowling & Golf Club held their annual Sportsman’s Dinner on Friday night with representatives of six sporting clubs in attendance. The men’s and ladies bowlers, men’s and ladies golfers as well as the senior cricket and the Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club presented reports to the dinner. […]

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New incentives for Townies and Bushies

If you thought that the sledging in Australian Cricket was bad, then you should hear what goes on when local golfers play the now traditional Townies versus Bushies Day. This year’s event will have an added incentive with the inaugural Ernie Potter Memorial Trophy, donated by the Potter family, to […]