June 7, 2025
Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club John Daly look-a-like Rodney Ford blasts his tee shot from the 14th at the Nambucca Heads Island Golf Course on Saturday, 26 April. While Daly was renowned for his 'Grip It and Rip It' mindset, Ford was more 'Blip It and Lip It' after a frustrating day on the greens.
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Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club

EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas, they say, and American Ray ‘Houston’ Baker drove that message home when he whaled the field at the Nambucca Heads Island Golf Course. The 27-marker had 38 points with daylight second in the Nambucca RSL Dolphin Day medley stableford on Thursday, 24 April. That saw Baker collect the vaunted Dolphin […]

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AFL North Coast season resumes Sawtell/Toormina Saints’ Tully Jarvis and Coffs Harbour Breakers’ Khaila Chalker contest a centre bounce. Photo: AFL North Coast.
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AFL North Coast season resumes

AFTER a week off due to Easter, the AFL North Coast season resumed with Round 2 matches in Sawtell. The Sawtell Toormina/Saints and Coffs Harbour Breakers women shared the points in a 2.9 (21) to 3.3 (21) draw in their grand final rematch at Richardson Park. The Saints reserves opened their season with a 11.4 […]

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Asian Cup agony: Matildas star Fowler has ruptured ACL Mary Fowler is set for a long stint on the sidelines. Photo: AP Photo/Daniel Cole.
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Asian Cup agony: Matildas star Fowler has ruptured ACL

MATILDAS star Mary Fowler has ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and is in a race against time to play in next year’s home Asian Cup. Manchester City had been hopeful the brilliant winger had avoided the dreaded injury, suffered when she appeared to wrench her right knee while overstretching for the ball on Sunday. […]

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Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club Nine-marker Nev Newman had an 81 off the bat in the second monthly medal of 2025 at the Nambucca Heads Island Golf Course on the first day of autumn.
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Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club

NOTHING like a stroke round at the Nambucca Heads Island Golf Course to sort the wheat from the chaff and the magic from the mayhem. The tees were so far back for the Nambucca Liquor Men’s Monthly Medal that even Joe Street would have approved, while some of the pins were devilish. Only three of […]

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Macksville Country Club Golf Tony Grebert, Ted Single and Mick O'Brien looking confident on the first tee.
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Macksville Country Club Golf

THE HLV Partners Accounting sponsored the monthly Medal and Spoon event played in ideal autumn weather. While Allan Clarke was runner up to Brock Klar whose net score was a winner in Division one, Allan’s gross score was the best of the day to win the Spoon – again . In Division two Todd Bartlett […]

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Peters Wins Veterans Golf Gary Peters, Dale Rabbett, Arthur Poynting.
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Peters Wins Veterans Golf

  WHEN the Gloucester Veteran Golfers played their fifth round of their Summer Cup on Tuesday 14 January Gary Peters turned in a score showing a handy two-point lead over the field. The day was warm and fine which was a nice change over the damp Tuesday of the previous week although the course was […]

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Gloucester Lady Bowlers Report Judy Sheely's team.
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Gloucester Lady Bowlers Report

  WE CERTAINTLY got a warm welcome back for 2025 for our first Point Score competition and it was good to have 18 ladies venture out with a welcome to Catherine Chen whom we welcome from Scone. We managed to have  10 ends of  Triples before the heat chased us indoors. Suzanne Cross,Joan Ridgeway and […]

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Steve Smith injures elbow ahead of Sri Lanka Tests Steve Smith is under a fitness cloud for Australia's tour of Sri Lanka after injuring an elbow. Photo: Mark Evans/AAP PHOTOS.
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Steve Smith injures elbow ahead of Sri Lanka Tests

  STAND-IN Australian captain Steve Smith has suffered an elbow injury just 10 days out from the first Test in Sri Lanka, potentially delaying his departure for a crucial pre-series camp. The 35-year-old damaged his right elbow while throwing in the field for the Sydney Sixers in their washed-out Big Bash League derby against the […]

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AFL North Coast juniors selected to Swans Academy Thirty-nine of the region’s juniors have been selected to the Sydney Swans Academy.
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AFL North Coast juniors selected to Swans Academy

    AFL North Coast’s best juniors have been selected to the QBE Sydney Swans Academy squads for 2025. Thirty-nine of the region’s juniors will benefit from the Swans Academy’s professional development program, with a record ten players chosen to be part of the Swans Academy’s top-end programs. The QBE Sydney Swans Academy exists to […]

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Young driver pursues Speedway racing Brody Faulds with his AMCA National car.
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Young driver pursues Speedway racing

  BRODY Faulds is pursuing his passion for speedway racing. The 19-year-old decided two years ago that he wanted to enter motor racing, so the Newee Creek driver bought his own AMCA National car. So far, he’s had fifteen race meetings in his young career, mainly at Grafton and Lismore speedways, with a best place […]

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