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Coffs Harbour Ex Services Master Pairs
left to right; Richard Girvan, CEX CEO John Rafferty, Wayne Turley and Tournament Director John McComasThe Coffs Harbour Ex Services Master Pairs saw the assembly of twenty four thoroughbred lawn bowling teams, who locked horns for the $22,000.00 prize money on offer at this year’s annual event. Forecasting the winners of this tournament would resemble similar odds to picking them six lucky numbers, we all hope for, on a Saturday night, such was the quality and symmetry of the field.
Members and spectators surrounding the greens were witness to some spectacular lawn bowls throughout the five game sectional rounds, which saw only Anthony Gillman & Chris Ryan (Greenslopes) and Richard Girvan & Wayne Turley (Taren Point) progress through all rounds, without suffering a loss.
With only two teams in each of the four sections progressing to the Quarter Finals it was always going to be a sprint to the finish for those teams that wished to be around on the final day, in hope of being crowned the 2008 CEX Master Pairs champions.
Local favorites Kent Price & Dallas Cole made their intentions obvious from day one with two strong wins, and memories of former Masters victories came flooding back as both home town boys looked in fine touch. Perennial winner Steve Glasson and team mate Kevin Tresize (St John’s Park) had been slow out of the blocks for the majority of the week, giving most opposition teams a generous start, but had succeeded with four wins, winning their section, due to finishes normally performed by the likes of Phar Lap.
Last years championship winners, Tom Ellem & Shane Garvey (Towradgi / Engadine), were in line to re-write the history books of the event, by becoming the first team to win in consecutive years and after a strong performance throughout the sectional play, they would prove be a force to be reckoned with during the final series.
Coffs Golfers win Bowls Business
Coffs Ex Services Bowling Club provided centre stage for the summer finale of Business House Bowls on Tuesday night. With only one round remaining and little separating many of the teams placed at the top of the ladder, winning their last round games would be a must for those who wished to take away the prestigious Business Bowls Award. STRONG TEAMS ENTER THIS YEARS TOURNAMENT
Spectators are assured of some excellent bowling with a line up of some of Australia’s top players stepping onto the Coffs Ex Services synthetic greens for the time.
A talented line up of twenty four teams only, from four States will play for a lucrative $21,800.00 in prize money. The Coffs Harbour Master Pairs starts Monday 7th July and continues through to Thursday 10th July.
RNSWBA REGISTERED No. 1839-20072007 COFFS HARBOUR MASTER PAIRS
Monday 2nd July to 5th July 2007
STRONG TEAMS DOMINATE THIS YEARS TOURNAMENT
Spectators are assured of some excellent bowling with a line up of some of Australia’s top players stepping onto the Coffs Ex Services greens.
A talented line up of bowlers from four States will play off for the $16800.00 Coffs Harbour Master Pairs prize money starting Monday 2nd July and continuing throgh to Thursday 5th July.
Last years winner, Patrick Reynolds & Aaron Sherriff will not be contesting their title as Sherriff has been picked in the Australian side and is playing in the Bowls Australia Grand Prix the same week.
The 35th Coffs Harbour Masters Pairs 2006
The final of the 2006 Coffs Harbour Master Pairs was, without a doubt one, if not the best game of bowls witnessed on the North Coast in many a year. The standard of bowls was exceptional from the first to last bowl of the game.
The final between Commonwealth Games Representatives Richard Girvan and Wayne Turley (Taren Point) and Pat Reynolds and 2005 Player of the Year Aron Sherriff (Halekulani) kept the great crowd of spectators glued to their seats until the last bowl went down. At the seventeenth end the scores were 16 – 15 in favor of Girvan and Turley but a three, two and one shot against them over the next three ends put them 21 – 16 behind. Turley killed two subsequent ends in an effort to recover but finally went down 21-17.
The 2005 Coffs Harbour Master Pairs
The field this year was well balanced with entries from Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland to take on the local and Mid North Coast teams.
Given the fact that only four days before the start of the tournament Coffs Harbour had recorded some 250mm of rain. Even so the greens were in perfect condition and ran at 16 seconds on all four days of play, thanks to the greens staff for their hard work.