WEDNESDAY last week, 9 July, Cheryl Goodrich turned in a score seven strokes clear of the field to win the WGNSW Medal. It was a clear sunny day for the Gloucester Golf Ladies Individual Stroke event with the players leaving trails of their putting lines on the dewy greens of the early morning. The course […]

Australia’s top order crumbles, leaving Ashes headaches
AUSTRALIA’S selectors have four Sheffield Shield matches to sort their openers for the Ashes, after the team’s top order crumbled under lights in Jamaica. The tourists went to stumps on night two at Sabina Park at 6-99 in their second innings, leading West Indies by 181 but with the game firmly in the balance. Sam […]
Evelyn and Paul Blanch win Mixed Foursomes
EVELYN Blanch and Paul Blanch returned to the winners’ circle in winning the Gloucester Mixed Foursomes Championships on Sunday 6 July. This was their ninth win in the event with their straight run of wins in the event only broken in 2024. The champions for 2025 are Evelyn Blanch and Paul Blanch who turned in […]
Veitch wins July Golf Medal
SATURDAY 5 July saw Ben Veitch taking out the Monthly Medal on a Gloucester Golf Course still playing on the heavy and slow side with players lucky to make their handicap. The event was an Individual Stroke sponsored by the Arkwood Family with the Medal going to the player across the field with the top […]
Tennis stars take on inter-club challenge
Gloucester and Laurieton tennis players. Three generations of Gloucester tennis players: Ian Schultz with daughter Leanne, grand-daughter Elyse and son-in-law Brett. MEMBERS of the Gloucester Tennis Club recently travelled to Laurieton for the second round of the new inter-club challenge. In what turned out to be a lovely sunny day, the Laurieton players were most […]
Gloucester’s John Hughes honoured for ‘distinguished service’
SPORT NSW has recognised John Hughes from Gloucester with the prestigious Distinguished Long Service Honour, following decades of unflagging and invaluable service to Northern NSW Football at a grassroots level. Hughes is among 19 recipients who were presented with their honour at the 2025 NSW Community Sports Awards held at CommBank Stadium in Parramatta on […]
Northern NSW rep side to take on Jets
NORTHERN NSW representative teams will face the Newcastle Jets as part of the A-League club’s pre-season preparation. Northern NSW Football (NNSWF) will select senior men’s and women’s representative teams to take on the Jets’ two A-Leagues sides. Similar matches have previously appeared on the football calendar but the formal partnership between Northern NSW Football and […]
Gloucester Scorpions Soccer Club – Round 13
Gloucester Scorpions Soccer Club players in action over the weekend. UNDER brilliant winter sunshine, the Gloucester Scorpions took to the fields for Round 13 with energy, enthusiasm, and plenty of community spirit. From our youngest Mini Roos to our Senior Men’s team, it was another exciting weekend of football. Mini Roos Proudly sponsored by Gloucester […]
Gloucester Parkrun
After the flood. Running in the mist. I finished. Good morning! IT WAS a small crowd of 18 finishers that ventured out of bed on a misty morning for Gloucester’s parkrun number 211 on Saturday. Visitors from Sydney were the first to arrive for the event, then locals gradually appeared out of the mist, timing […]

Charity Day at the Gloucester Golf Course
Steve Macdonald, Dave Robbins, Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service representative Richard Jones, Steve Williams and Paul Garland. Westpac Helicopter Volunteers. THERE was a good-sized field to celebrate the annual Westpac Helicopter Charity Day at the Gloucester Golf Course on Saturday 28 June with many also celebrating being “back on the paddock” after the course was effectively […]