The courts alive with Christmas and club colours.
LAST weekend the Gloucester courts were alive with colour as Gloucester members were hosts for the Mid North Coast district Christmas luncheon. Some 30 players from Taree, Forster, Port Macquarie and Gloucester met. Included during the day was the presentation of trophies for friendship days held during the year. It was also opportune time to […]
THE sun was shining again last Wednesday. 4 December, for the Gloucester Golf Ladies’ Summer Competition, an Individual Stableford event over 12 holes. There was plenty of run on the fairways as the grass dries out, while the water levels in the dams are getting low enough to expose those balls that were duffed off […]
IT WAS Tony Burnet’s day on Tuesday, 2 December, when the Gloucester Veteran Golfers turned out for their normal weekly outing; he finished three points ahead of the field and played seven under handicap. The event was played in cloudy and moderately warm conditions on a course starting to suffer from the lack of any […]
TUESDAY 25 November saw the Gloucester Veteran Golfers with a good-sized field play in mid-thirties heat; none of which deterred Paul Thibault from a win with a net score well inside his handicap. The event was an Individual Stroke with a Putting competition run in conjunction, all of which was sponsored by Will Bosma. The […]
Nathan McInnes, Paul Blanch.
THURSDAY night last, 27 November, the Gloucester Golf Club held its annual Presentation Night with Paul Blanch the standout performer in the major men’s events closely matched by Catherine Davies who featured strongly in the Womens and the Veterans competitions during the year. Paul Blanch had yet another stellar year with wins in the Club […]
IT WAS a hot and steamy day on Saturday, 22 November, for the Avon Valley Meats sponsored event with local Ben Veitch taking home the meat tray in the top grade while two visitors from Bondi were best in the lower two grades. The course has dried considerable over recent weeks and shots seem to […]
Bev, Bev, Di and Lou.
CHAMPIONSHIPS for 2025 have been completed, it’s now time for Social Bowls with the Selectors varying the format for games and the players trying various team positions. Point Score was the event of the day, thus the players were given the rink number and 4s being the event, the players were assigned to either rink […]
Denise Bruce and Al Minis with President Ashleigh Hickman.
Denise Bruce and Al Minis with President Ashleigh Hickman. Chris Sims and Alec Bruce again with President Ashleigh. WITH the end of year fast approaching, the completion of the 2025 club competitions for croquet took place. This time it was handicapped doubles. Partners were drawn as follows: Judy Hopkins & Dianne Shanley, Al Minis & […]
Derek Bardwell, Gai Falla.
THE Veteran Golfers at Gloucester played a strange event on Tuesday, 18 November, in the form of a Stableford Multiplier wherein the score for the pair at each hole is the multiplicand of the two individual scores. It’s a form of golfing quicksand during which, on this occasion, Gai Falla and Derek Bardwell prevailed. The […]
Three generations.
Three generations. Time for a chat. IT WAS a cool morning for Gloucester’s 232nd parkrun after hot days during the week, with piles of fallen bunyah branches providing evidence of the strong winds that had swept through the park. There were 35 finishers for the event, including visitors from Port Macquarie and Blackheath. Locals included […]
