Bowls North Harbour OPEN Ivan Kostanich Men’s singles – 20 & 21 September 2025

The immediate future of the sport was revealed at Hobsonville at the weekend when two young bowlers, both not long out of the one-to-five ranks, contested Sunday’s final of Bowls North Harbour’s Ivan Kostanich Open singles tournament.  Harbour’s Matt Higginson, from the Manly club, achieved the biggest win of ... More

National Awards for Bowls North Harbour – High Achievers

North Harbour’s most successful bowler of recent years and two of its major contributors have received major honours in Bowls New Zealand’s annual awards.    Black Jack Selina Goddard, of the Takapuna club, has been named female player of the year, Sue Rossiter, of Milford, national umpire of the year, and Pete ... More

Metlifecare NZ Masters 2025 – Event Structures & Draws

The Metlifecare Masters events are now on the Bowls North Harbour website https://www.bowlsnorthharbour.com/metlifecare-nz-masters-2025-cops-draws-results-links/ Metlifecare NZ Masters 2025 Venues Monday 29 September 2025 Hobsonville 2 greens 60 – 74 Men’s Fours Takapuna 1 green ... More

BNH 2-4-2 Mixed Pairs – Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 September 2025

Two of North Harbour’s most successful bowlers of recent years, David Eades, now with Browns Bay, and Theresa Rogers, of Mairangi Bay, won at the weekend the centre’s first championship title for the 2025-26 season.  In the final of the mixed pairs 2-4-2 championship at Helensville, after bowlers had to brave brutal ... More

Obituary – Norma Klaassen

Bowls North Harbour has lost a great servant, particularly of its match committee, with the passing this week of Norma Klaassen. Up until recent seasons, despite being into her 80s, Norma was a regular and accurate recorder of centre tournaments and inter-club competitions. She had more than 20 years in this role and ... More

BNH Representative Teams for pre season launch event – 28 September 2025

The representative season is about to commence with the Premier, Development and 1-5 teams playing a Quad against on the 4th & 5th of October against Auckland, Bay of Plenty and Northland A preseason hit-out for the Bowls North Harbour players who are available, has been scheduled for Sunday 28th September at Manly, ... More

Obituary – John Sakey

John Sakey, a distinguished contributor to the Takapuna Bowling Club, both as a player and in various administrative roles, and much respected throughout the Bowls North Harbour centre, has died, after a lengthy illness, aged 80. From a background in indoor bowls, John joined Takapuna in 1994 and quickly became one of ... More

National Mixed 2-4-2 Champion of Champion – August 29th to 31st 2025

Nic Murrell and Eden Murrell-Manu, from Marlborough’s Picton club, gave a brilliant exhibition of draw bowls to win the final national champion of champions event at Tauranga at the weekend. In Sunday’s final of the mixed pairs 2-4-2 championship they needed only 13 of the 14 ends to beat Paul Selby and Jane Selby ... More

National Champion of Champion Triples – 22 – 24 August 2025

It was a case of so near but not quite far enough for Mairangi Bay’s Sheryl Wellington, Jan Gledhill and Colleen Rice, as North Harbour’s representatives in the national champion of champions triples tournament in Auckland at the weekend.  They came agonisingly close to making the women’s post-section, missing out ... More

National Champion of Champion Women’s Pairs – 15 to 17 August 2025

North Harbour’s representatives, former Black Jack, Wendy Jensen and her partner, Jeni Hart, continued the centre’s disappointing return when the national champion of champion women’s pairs were held at the weekend at Auckland’s New Lynn club. It was an especially frustrating time for Wendy and Jeni, who entered ... More