A large contingent of Peninsula Bridge Club members travelled in August to Coffs Harbour for the 2019 Coffs Coast Gold Congress - a delightful combination of a Swiss pairs and a teams event each with open, intermediate and restricted categories. The event is popular and normally books out within a day or so of opening for registration (next year is going to be 9am on 1 Apr 2020 - diarise this now).
Peninsula had some significant successes in the Restricted and Intermediate categories! Here are some of the highlights:
- In the Swiss Pairs, Peninsula member Jim Stewart won the Restricted (<300MP) category with partner David Owen - and finished ahead of those in the Intermediate category!
- In the Swiss Pairs, Peninsula member Allan Pike was 3rd in the Intermediate category (<750MP) with partner Arthur Bragg.
- In the Teams, Peninsula members Marieta Borthwick and Annegrete Kolding were 2nd in the Restricted category with L and M Brassil, just behind the winning Gibbards team.
- In the Teams, Peninsula members Rodney and Sue Scotford and Gillian Richmond were 4th in the Intermediate category playing with Penny Cockbill.
We did not do so well in the open categories with the best I think being Cath Whiddon and David Farmer managing 17th in the Swiss Pairs (out of 126).
