2026 Club News

Championship Men’s Fours

The club Men’s Fours Championship went on to contest the CQMens C/C fours event, but unfortunately they can up against the hot Gracemere boys going down in a hard fort game, We wish Gracemere all the best in their next games. 

CQLBA Shield

Our Ladies competed in this year’s CQ Shield making it all the way to the final, but sadly went down to Victoria Park being the overall winners for this event. The Ladies had a fun time playing in this tournament each year.

RBC Men’s President Day

Jack Blackburn held his day today, play continued under our cover with the wet weather coming down outside. Jack would like to thank all players who attended to make his day enjoyable and fun , and you tried out our new surface. What do you think ? Thanks to the RBC volunteers who worked to make Jack’s day a success.

CLUB LIFE MEMBER

The Club wish to extend their thanks to Bev Johnston for all her time and hard work she has given over her more than 15 years to running and support this club. Bev has been on both our committee’s in several positions, working with volunteers to cover our functions (which the club needs to help with yearly finances). All in all Bev is a valued member and we would like 20 more of her to support this great club into the future. Once again we thank you Bev for your time and dedication. Bev has stood down this year from a position so we wish her well in her just bowling at the club.

2026 Live Life Shield

The Live Life Shield is played each year between Gracemere Bowls Club and our own Rockhampton Bowls Club, this year the first of two events was played at RBC due to the weather conditions. The club thanks our ladies for a very nice afternoon tea, with Men’s President Jack Blackburn thanking all players for attending. Two teams shared the winning prize with both having the highest winning margin. The afternoon was well received with all players enjoying the fun with some serious bowls being played in the mix.

New Carpet Surface Open Date

As you know the club is in the process of a new playing surface, the maintenance crew started before Xmas, with the undersurface being completed. We were of the understanding that the crew would be back to complete the laying of the carpet in the new year with completion on or around the 12th January, but unfortunately that is not the case, the workers will recommence on the 12th and hopefully all will be completed by the 19th at the earliest. Some work will needed to be done by our groundsmen with marking of the rinks ect. The club hopes to have an open day so all can come along and have a roll.

2025 AGM information

The club held its AGM on Friday 19th December, and we thank those who showed interest in our club and turned up for this meeting, we thank the outgoing management committee and the two bowls subcommittee members for their support in 2025. 

The new committee’s for 2026 can be found on the elected page on this site, we give a huge thanks for the members who are standing up again for the 2026 committees, especially the management of  Syd O’Sing, Desieree Hindmarsh, Lyn Houlihan and Tony Zonca, these members have been in these roles for a number of years and should be thanked sincerely for their time and effort they provide the club. Jeff Slater, Ian Lester, Col Davidson and Mirriam Black also have contributed a number of years to positions on our committees.

We thank Bev Johnston for her valued time to the club with endless years on our committees. Bev was honoured by receiving a life membership to our club, we need more members like Bev, who has dedicated many hours to this club.

The only other news from the meeting is the combining of our sub bowls committees into one bowling committee. This sparked some debate on the process and how this would look moving forward. Was decided that the management committee would deploy a steering sub committee to gather information and meet with members of both ladies and mens bowling and advise and comply a plan to move forward in 2027.

2025 NEWS

Betta Home Living Carnival

Betta Home Living Carnival was held at the club on Sunday 30th November. We are delighted to once again team up with Betta Home Living to hold this event, thanks to Chris and his team. The carnival was well received with our green being full of players for the day. The weather was a little unkind with humidity being uncomfortable but all players enjoying the competition. Betta Home Living has be supporting our club for many years, and we hope this will continue into the future. Sponsorship is a large part of all club, and we thank to kindly.

Winners for the day are as followed:

1st Rod Mooney, Ron Wigginton, Nick Jones and Graham Hudson with 3 wins 30 ends 62 points

2^nd Penny Field, May Hoad, Luke Hay and Mark Hay with 3 wins 27 ends 59 points

3^rd Phil Robinson, Heather Everett, Kay Borg and Tony Zonca with 3 wins 27 ends 56 points.

4^th Kelley Comey, Max Bradley, Gary Walker and Jack Blackburn with 2 wins 28 ends 47 points.

Lucky Draw. Jan Gable, Col Davidson, Alan Gabel and Syd O’Sing.

RBC Ladies Presentation Day

The Ladies Section held their presentation day on 26th November where their President Miriam Black congratulated all the winners for the 2025 competition games for the year. Miriam also handed the winners their prizes, she also thanked the ladies for their donation of food that was shared for the luncheon. All members enjoyed the day, was a fun and happy afternoon. Miriam thanked her committee for their support and help over her year as President. 

Live Life Shield

Saturday 13.9.2025 saw RBC play the return fixture of the 2025 Live Life Shield against Gracemere Bowls Club at GBC.  This competition is friendly mixed contest played each year between the two Clubs on both Club’s and sponsored by the Live Life Pharmacy, Gracemere.
This year RBC proved a little too good for GBC but an enjoyable afternoon of bowls was enjoyed by all.

Past President’s Day

Past Presidents’ Day held at RBC on Sunday 13.9.2025 was attended by fourteen teams.
Winners on the day were drawn from participants with 2 Wins (RBC Men) 1 win ( Port Curtis) and 0 Wins ( Wowan).

Renovations are Completed

If you have not visited our club recently, here are a few shots of our new downstairs area, new bar, toilets and seating area. This project was not small, and did take longer than thought, but we can say what a transformation, thanks to all who made this project a reality.The club held an open morning breakfast on Sunday for members and guests to come and see what has been happening behind the boarded area. The honourable M/s Donna Kirkland representing Minister for Sport and Racing Mr Tim Mander was on hand to officially open this new facility. We thank Donna for her visit. Our next big change will be our new carpet being installed over our Xmas break. 

Ladies Pennants 2025

Our Ladies represented the club in both divisions of Ladies Pennants for 2025. The Division 1 team played well through the event and played Yeppoon in the final, the girls were victorious winning the event for 2025. We thank all players who took the time to represent our club. The RBC Ladies will travel to Boyne Tannum to compete in the Zone Play off against Port Curtis (Biloela Club) and Bundaberg on the 27th September 

KKS Prestige Fours Carnival

Once again the KKS sponsored the club Prestige Fours Carnival, this was a great success with a full house in nominations. The club wishes to thank KKS for their generous sponsorship in funding the prize money for this event. The club also thanks the Ladies Section for producing a loverly lunch meal and nibbles for the afternoon, we thank all members who helped on the day and all the players who came and supported our club. 

Renovations to our Club

If you have visited our club recently you would have noticed some changes, Firstly the new disability car parks at the back of our building. This is to allow easy access to our disability members and visitors. Another project has been an upgrade to our downstairs toilets, which once again is supporting easy access for our disability community. This toilet area is know complete but we are still waiting for the final touches to our Bar area, which has taken longer than the committee expected. We are hoping this area will be completed in the coming months. The club would like to thank the Australian Government (MIIFF) through their grants program that has allowed the club to complete these projects. 

The other big news is our club is purchasing a new synthetic green surface, this maintenance will commence this year in early December so our club will have a bigger Xmas break than usual so this work can be carried out. The club invites all players to come along and try our green, we have been advised this should be in early January if all goes to plan.  Watch is Space for Updates

Birthday Wishes Eileen

Congratulations to Eileen Cavanagh, a long serving member of the club, Eileen recently celebrated her 90th birthday, our Ladies President Mirriam Black presented Eileen with the clubs patriarch badge for thanks for she services to our club.

Ladies District Shield

RBC Ladies represented the club playing in the Ladies District Shield, which is played between clubs in our Central Queensland District. Our ladies reached the semi final unfortunately going down  to Yeppoon Bowls Club. This event is well supported and a great event for our ladies to partake in, we thank our ladies for their participation.

Harrup Shield

Each year our Men participate in the Disrtict Harrup Shield which is played against other District Clubs. The RBC Team were victorious over Gracemere coming home with the shield. All our players played excellent bowls and at no time was the shield in dough of coming to Rockhampton Bowls Club. Thanks guys for representing this great club.

News 2024

Club Annual AGM

The club held the annual AGM on Sunday 15th December, for the size of this club it was a disappointing show of members who attended this meeting.  The committee can only provide so much so without the member support this is difficult. I congratulate the members who do show an interest in the club and came to the meeting. 

The committee stays the same as last year, with only a couple of changes, we welcome Col Davidson and Debbie Simpson to the committee and Miriam Black becomes the Ladies President, I thank the members who have once again stud up and volunteered their time to guide and run the club in 2025.

Life Member

At our Annual General Meeting, Pat Wiemers was nominated for Club Life Membership. Pat joined our club in 2012, holding several positions in the Ladies’ sec-tion and, in 2013, Pat took on the position of Treasurer for the Ladies and still holds this position today. 

Congratulations Pat on your achievements within our club, and a big thank you from all members, without members like yourself who are dedicated to the club, we would not be here. 

Our Chairman Syd O’Sing presented Pat with her Life Membership badge. 

RBC held our Annual Neil Barry afternoon today.
Neil Barry was President of Rockhampton Bowls Club for a number of years from the late 1980’s to 1995.  He along with several other stalwarts of RBC were instrumental in establishing the permanent roof and the first carpet green.  This was a major undertaking for a small club and required a determined effort from members to give us the comfort of an all weather facility for members to play Bowls rain, hail or at the height of summer heat.
Winners on the day were the team of Bev Johnston, Sylvia Fern and John Babic.

RBC Ladies Bowls Xmas Party and Presentation Day

Today 27th November the RBC Ladies Bowls held their end of year Luncheon and Presentation Day.  President Rosie Rumpf welcomed all Ladies to the event and read out a message from Member Margaret Reddy, who could not be present.  Special Guests were Life Members-
Ursula Harrison and her sister Dell Moger
Eileen Cavanagh
Val King
Val Hegarty

President Rosie and Games Director June Shelton presented the RBC Ladies winners for 2024 with their prizes.  The delicious luncheon was supplied by Members on a ‘bring a plate’ basis and shared with good company.  Lucky Door and Raffle Prizes, donated by Members were won.  Barman for the day was Men’s President, Noel Roberts. Christmas gifts were exchanged by Members.

Men’s President Noel Roberts addressed those gathered and thanked the Ladies for their hard work for the Club and their support for the RBC Men and during Carnivals, Card Days and Functions.

President Rosie and Card Convenor, Kay Borg also thanked all of those Ladies and Men who have helped throughout the year in any way.

We Thank our Volunteers

RBC held its Annual Volunteer’s Breakfast, hosted by Chairman Syd O’Sing today, 17th November, 2024.

A friendly group of our Members whose efforts over the year have helped our Club to maintain a steady income stream from Functions, general running and maintenance of the Club, organising Bowls, holding various positions, buying ingredients and many other voluntary work, together with their very patient partners gathered and enjoyed a very tasty breakfast prepared by, you guessed it, volunteers.  A menu of Cereal, Fruit, Sausages, Bacon and Eggs with a side of Baked Beans and Toast, Fruit Juice, Coffee and Tea was enjoyed by all present.

Chairman Syd welcomed all to the event and thanked all those who have helped in any way.  As is the way of our Club Members, everyone pitched in and helped make the event a happy pleasant way to start the day, with some enjoying a bit of Bowling as well.

Our Rockhampton Bowls Club is fortunate to have those Members and of course their Partners, who are willing to contribute so that all Members of the Club and Members of Community organisations and private citizens can make use of our facilities and enjoy the goodwill of a fantastic Club Membership.

Bev.Johnston,
Vice Chairman, Rockhampton Bowls Club.
Secretary, RBC Ladies Bowls Section.

Kev and Jean Weaver Afternoon

The club held an afternoon of bowls in honour of long serving members Kev and Jean Weaver. The club thank the family for their continued support and they were on hand to hand out the Weaver Trophy. Winner for the afternoon with 2 wins + 17 were, Joan Alderson, Ken and Kay McCrohon. We thank all the members who came and showed their consideration to the Weavers.

Mayoral Trophy Day

Each year our local Mayor Tony Williams supports our club by sponsoring this day, which is well supported by the bowling community. The club thanks Drew Wickerson for attending on behalf of Tony and presenting the trophy to the winning team and prizes to the runner up teams. We very much appreciate all who make this day a great event, our club members and our bowling friends who came along and play. We hope to continue this event next year with our Mayor’s support.

Thomo’s Betta Home Living – Open Fours Carnival

Our local business Thomo’s Betta Home Living has been supporting this club for many years and this allows us to hold this event, we greatly appreciate all the support this business show our club. We thank all the players who attended with our you guys no carnival is possible and lastly our club members who work behind the senes, a big thanks to all involved.

2024 Pennants

Our club team players  for 2024 Pennants. The men were unsuccessful in both Division One and Two this year, we congratulate all players who represented our club.

This year our Club Ladies District Champion Singles winner Marcelle Broadhurst played Yeppoon winner Penny Field, the ladies played a great game with Penny finally coming home the winner. We congratulate Marcelle in reaching the final for the District.

Our Ladies once again played in the District Ladies Pennants for 2024. The club was fortunate is fielding teams in both Divisions this year with the Second Division winning the 2024 event. Congratulation to the players who represented your club, and well done to our ladies in Division One who missed the flat this year.

Health and Sport Expo

Our Club was active in our community with a site at the recent Health and Sports Expo held at the Rocky Show Grounds. Our members were on hand to explain the game of bowls and how it can help with your health in sports. We thank members who maned the site for the day.

Thanks to Tony

The club wishes to thank our member Tony Zonca for sponsoring our first money day for the year. The club is very appreciative of all Tony does for this club, Committee Member as well as Assistant Treasurer and know a kind sponsor. The club values all our sponsors who contribute to make these day possible. 

The winners on the day were Jan Tennent, Ann Thomas and Phil Robinson, second place Penny Wilton, Clyde Jackson and Mick Hagen. Team with no wins George Friesacher, Carol Wellings and Ross Sanders. Lucky winners Di Degney, Peter Craig and Ross Wellings.

North/South

Each year our club hold our annual North versus South, this is determined which side of the river you live. This event was once hotly contested with the South winning the competition 158 to 151. This is another win for the South’s as they were the winners last year. 

Souths team leader Rob Black excepts the trophy from North leader Harley Wilton