ROB Coneybeare is nicer and more optimistic than Ned Flanders from The Simpsons, but his saintly halo must have been tested after a calamitous start at the Nambucca Heads Island Golf Course on Saturday. A fluffed first shot left his pill near the red markers on the tee box and the subsequent rattled the chook […]

SATURDAYS multiplier pairs event, sponsored by the Zirkler family, tests mate-ships as Stableford points of the two players are multiplied on each hole . An example is, if one player scores say 3 points and his partner has 0 the result is zero, yet if both score 3 points the result is 9 on that […]

SCORES of near 40 seemingly matched the ‘feels-like’ temperature at the Nambucca Heads Island Golf Course on Saturday. Tim Kinnear carded 39 points in the Nambucca News medley stableford on 24 January, but even that wasn’t enough to guarantee a stress-free ride in Div 1. The 13-handicapper Titaniced the 9th with a triple bogey before […]

  WHO’S DA MAN?: Ashton Herbert and Ken Klem enjoyed the banter at the Nambucca Heads Island Golf Course.   Peter Klem-Goode a nano-second before impact on the 9th tee. The ball sailed onto the fairway (the correct one).   FOUR-lettered words beginning with ‘f’ are a common soundtrack as hopes and dreams collide with […]

BOWRAVILLE Golf Club Delivers a Cracking Saturday Competition Bowraville Golf Club enjoyed a fantastic day on the course on Saturday, 17 January 2026, with players turning out in great spirits for a Stableford competition that produced some excellent scores and close contests throughout the field. Top honours went to Phillip Cotten, who delivered an impressive […]

Macksville Country Club. Macksville Country Club. THERE was a great turnON THE 17th of December the first annual Brian “POM” Howard Memorial Fundraiser Day was held at the Macksville Country Club. Brian was originally from Newcastle however he moved up to the Nambucca valley to join some of his family and was quick to make […]

ONE of the biggest fields for months competed in the Bernard Laverty memorial Stableford and Mystery four ball events at Macksville Country Club. With fifteen players having a net par round of 36 or better, “big” Bob Lindsay had the best round with a net 41 to win the day and division 2. Adam Ross […]

DARRELL Flanders kissed a golf handicap goodbye and showed he thrives in a convection oven after posting a stonking score at the Nambucca Heads Island layout. The once-was-9-marker scorched around in brutal conditions to card 44 points to win the Cubana Resort medley stableford Div 1 on Saturday, 10 January. Flanders birdied 3, 11 and […]