Centre Fours – Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 February 2026

Takapuna achieved the rare, and possibly unprecedented, feat in the centre’s championship fours at the weekend, that being a second double of title successes on the one day.  In Sunday’s finals at Birkenhead Chris Taylor, Chris Charles, Murray Mathieson and Norm Scott-Morrison won the men’s event, beating Birkenhe... More

Report – $6,000 Birkenhead Carpet Mill Men’s Pairs – 31 Jan & 1 Feb 2026

Mount Albert’s Zoran Bartulovich and Neven Grgicevich emerged from a highly competitive field to win the $6,000 Carpet Mill Birkenhead Men’s Pairs at the weekend. After two days of quality bowls they won the final against another excellent combination, Northland father-and-son, Daniel and David Hood.  For their win ... More

Milford 5000 – Sat 24 & Sun 25 January 2026

Manly’s Shaun Goldsbury, Skye Renes and Andy Dorrance were a decisive winning team at the weekend of another highly successful and competitive Harcourts Cooper Milford 5000.  The Goldsbury-skipped trio was the only combination which finished Sunday’s 16-team championship with four wins to finish as an outright ... More

National Pairs and Singles – it’s a wrap!!

In what generally was a quiet tournament for bowlers from the northern part of the country, Leeane Poulson and Tony Grantham injected some North Harbour interest into the final day of the 2025-26 national singles and championships in Christchurch. Leeane, who joined the Takapuna club from Counties this season and who ... More

Battle of the Bridge – Sunday 7 December 2025

On a day where overall North Harbour’s representatives were outplayed by their Auckland counterparts, the centre’s men’s open team salvaged some distinction in the annual Battle of the Bridge, held at the Browns Bay club.  Against some stiff Auckland competition, whose number included BlackJack and former North ... More

Men’s Centre Singles & Women’s Centre Pairs – 15 & 16 November 2025

The changing face of North Harbour bowls was vividly illustrated at the weekend when two recent arrivals to the centre, Dean McMurchy and Matt Berry, made Sunday’s final of the men’s singles championship at the Takapuna club.  Another distinction to this match-up was that it provided a clash between a recent winner of ... More

     Two of North Harbour’s most popular bowlers, Birkenhead’s Millie Nathan and Browns Bay’s Lloyd Sinton, enhanced their already considerable reputations and playing CVs with wins in the centre’s two championship events decided at the weekend.     Millie, in what has been a relatively short career, gained ... More

BNH Triples – 1st & 2nd November 2025

Takapuna enjoyed a double success when the North Harbour triples championships were decided at the Milford club on Sunday. Graham Skellern, John Whiteford and Ian Hardy won the Dick Bree men’s title, beating three newcomers to the centre, Chris Gore, Dean McMurchy and George Lyddiard,, who have joined the Beach Haven ... More

Representative Quadrangular – 4 & 5 October 2025

Victory by the men’s team in Saturday’s 1 to 5 year category highlighted North Harbour’s performances in the season’s opening representative fixtures at the weekend, the annual quadrangular against Auckland, Bay of Plenty and Northland. The one-to-five men, anchored by singles player Mark Brown winning all three ... More

Metlifecare NZ Masters – What a Week!! – 29 Sept to 3 Oct 2025

Northland bowling legend, Ann Muir, was the star of the Metlifecare Bowls North Harbour Masters tournament, winning all  three of the disciples for which she was entered.   The former Black Jack and national champion teamed up with another stalwart of the Northland centre, Ian Bowick, to win the 75 plus mixed pairs ... More