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Camels re-start their training

The Cobar Camels Rugby Union Club has recommenced training in preparation for a July kick off of their Western Plains Rugby Union 2020 season. Club president Jarrod Marsden said while a resumption date has not been confirmed the zone is hopeful of a mid-July start. “Rugby Australia is following the […]

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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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Big field of 23 for Stableford event

The last of the Autumn weather brought lots of golfers out of the woodwork on Saturday with a good field of 23 players contesting the Men’s Stableford event. Only two players, Steve Manns and Michael Ryan, broke par with 38 points each, with Manns winning on a countback. Jason Foster […]

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New format for Castlereagh in 2020

The draw for the 2020 Christie and Hood Castlereagh Rugby League competition has been finalised in a salvaged format as a result of the COVID-19 ravaged season. Each of the nine clubs will play each other once with the competition set to kick off mid July. League secretary Bryson Luff […]

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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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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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Weekend winter weather didn’t deter

Lady golfers were rugged up this week after winter arrived a bit early. The cold snap however didn’t deter weekend players with 14 ladies turning up for both days of competition. Wednesday’s stableford could only manage seven starters with a three-way countback determining the winner, Susan Goonrey, from Wan Sipatsa […]

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Men’s golf scores starting to improve

Nice weekend weather saw good roll-ups of men golfers on both days. Thirteen players contested a stableford event on Saturday and most players are starting to run into some form, except for the Super Vet, Max Phillips, who is having an unusual loss of from. Bill Fugar showed very good […]

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Lady golfers seen soaking up the sun

Lady golfers were seen soaking up the sun last week on the course with numbers increasing due to some of the COVID-19 restrictions being relaxed. Groups of four can play together now although the one player per cart rule still stands. Sally Bannister was the Stroke competition winner on Wednesday […]