Cup on whistle stop tour
By JOLENE OGLE
MADE of 18-carat gold and worth $175,000, the Emirates Melbourne Cup last week toured Noosa, stopping at local venues and helping raise...
Worth the try
By NICK THOMPSON
NOOSA’S place on the world rugby map has been firmly established with a leading international official describing the club’s Sevens Festival as...
Only golf in mind
By JOLENE OGLE
MOST 16-year-old girls are busy thinking about the end of year formal, but for Shania Herzog-Smith golf is the only thing on...
Seniors struggle juniors shine
By JOHN HOPE
A GRADE
Cooroy-Eumundi A Grade hosted last year’s premiers Yandina on the first day of the 2014-'15 season. After winning the toss and...
How sweet it is
NOOSA HEADS BOWLS
THE tradition continues. Back in 1987, then president Joan Barrett and her committee at NHBC came up with the idea of...
Timmy’s record round
By JONATHON HOWARD
TEWANTIN Noosa Golf Club’s rising star Timmy Butterworth, 22, won his first professional tournament at Carbrook, Loganholme, recently with nine birdies.
Timmy is...
Hosed down by Nippers
By RON LANE
LAST weekend; school holidays, big crowds, great weather and most important of all safe surfing conditions were a magnet for beach goers....
Dragons bank on Bendigo again
ANOTHER successful season has come to an end for Eumundi Dragons Junior Rugby Club, but the announcement of a return sponsor has the club...
Ladies’ Fiesta draws them in
COOROY BOWLS
WHAT a great week at Cooroy Community Bowls Club. The Ladies’ Fiesta was a wonderful success with teams attending from far and...
It’s Sporty Horse
TEWANTIN Noosa Pony Club has embraced all sports to create the Horsey Sporty Car Boot sale, with all proceeds to aid the purchase of...
Pick of rugby crop
By JONATHON HOWARD
THE world’s elite rugby union players are converging on Noosa this week to take part in the town’s biggest ever international sporting...
A night to remember
By BRUCE BLAKEMORE
THE Spring four-person challenge produced one of the most memorable semi-final nights the club has ever witnessed. Not only for the high...