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Eighteen pairs entered our Australia Wide Pairs event at the end of August. It proved a close contest locally at our club with Cath Whiddon and David Farmer with 63.9% playing North South just pipping sister Jennifer Ardill and her partner Peter Clarke with 63.2% playing East West.
But the tables were turned when the event was scored nationally, with Jen and Peter edging slightly ahead (at 61.2% and 118th nationally) of Cath and David (on 61.1% and 123rd nationally). Further scores are still coming in. You can see our club players' rankings in the nation wide scoring as it evolves. Our players local and national results are also listed below - with links to each player's personal electronic results booklet.
The four week State Open Pairs qualifier finished in August with congratulations to Peter Clarke and Hans van Weeren as the winners.
(Ed. In the absence of a photo from this year's qualifier we have reused a photo celebrating their success at another earlier event. They haven't aged a bit.)
Pittwater Online profiled the Peninsula Bridge Club in its 1-7 Sep 2019 edition, introducing it with:
"In recent weeks the great community spirit and contributions of members of the Peninsula Bridge Club has received thanks from other local organisations, including the Mona Vale Hospital Auxiliary, local NSW Rural Bush Fire brigades and the Mona Vale Hospital Auxiliary Volunteers. Looking after others is not restricted to local organisations, check Shooting Films - Not Guns: Peninsula Bridge Club Raises Funds To Provide A New Opportunity For Jalalabad Youths.
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:
Due to very few members purchasing 5 PPVs (pre-paid vouchers) and the administration costs of supporting it, this 5 PPV purchase option will no longer be available as at 1 September. Members can of course continue to buy PPVs in lots of 10 and also pay cash at the table if needed.
Additionally the colour of the pre-paid vouchers will be changing to red when the current stock of green cards runs out. We have been able to print the red cards ourselves, again saving the club and its members significant money.
Please contact me (Bob Whiddon) if you have any questions.
The gods have whispered in our ear and told us that there may be too many session announcements.
So we will try to reduce these and not repeatedly remind players about upcoming events.
Instead please look at the upcoming event notices on the notice-boards - and at the club TV slideshow to see what is coming up!
Check out the latest ABF Newsletter (Aug 2019).
It includes a huge range of material of interest to bridge players, particularly but not only for those at the competitive end of the spectrum.
"...maintaining physical, social and brain health is an important component of reducing dementia risk, which all Australians can implement in their daily lives. Learning a new language, picking up bridge, travelling and going back to study are ideal examples as they incorporate brain challenges and increase social engagement, which are both important for dynamically engaging the brain." (bolding added)
From an article "What causes Alzheimer’s disease? What we know, don’t know and suspect" by Yen Ying Lim and Rachel Buckley, published in The Conversation on 2 Jun 2017, and republished on 3 Aug 2019.
