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Cobar Judo Club welcomes another black belt
Local Andrew Roberts recently earned his black belt after more than seven years of dedicated training with the Cobar Judo Club under the guidance of Sensei Ray Chandler. Obtaining a black belt in any form of martial arts is a major achievement with statistics showing that only 10 students out […]
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Golfers out in good numbers despite the cold
It was a cold weekend for golf but there were still good turn-outs, especially on Saturday when 24 players competed in the Men’s Golf Three Ball Classic. The different rules which applied to this format of the game didn’t deter the Fraser family team, of Stewart, Alec and Mark, who […]
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Clark’s second hole in one this season
It’s that man again – Greg Clark, who continues to amaze the local golfing fraternity. Clark ruthlessly outclassed men’s golf captain Peter ‘China’ Brien on Saturday to advance to the semi-final stage of the Bill Bartlett Matchplay competition. Then on Sunday, not happy with a hole-in-one a couple of months […]
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Kriz dusts off the stress to win Vets title
A late confirmation saw the ladies golf Country Vets Championships take place on Sunday with a field of 14 players. Narelle Kriz put the stress of the past few months behind her to blitz the field with 76 off the stick giving her an unbeatable 66 net final result. Her […]
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Who made the Men’s Golf Top 10 list?
Cobar’s Men’s Golf Captain Peter ‘China’ Brien has been playing golf in Cobar for the past 30 years and has served on the committee for 28 years. In that time he’s seen some great golfers in Cobar and we asked him to name his Top 10. “In my Top 10 […]
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Cobar’s best have all competed at Nationals
The Cobar Weekly has called upon a local Clay Target shooter (Mister Target) to select Cobar’s Greatest Clay Target team and, with so much local talent on offer, he’s gone back through the Australian history records to select his squad. The six shooters in this squad have been selected based […]
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Combined effort to select a women’s team
Basketball was a dominant sport for many years in Cobar, particularly in the 1990s, and a number of Cobar players went on to play at representative level. Cobar women’s teams competed in the Wild West Challenge and Macquarie Conference competitions which brought them up against teams from throughout the central […]
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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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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 […]