Bridge Club News
Congratulations to Bronwyn Neal and Lynne Talmont who won the 2019 U10 Individual event, played over the year on the first Wednesday of the month from March through November. Each individual's best seven scores count. This is the first major event in which many of our newer players compete.
Bronwyn and Lynne won the event as equal first ahead of Anthony Colenbrander, and then in equal fourth place, Janelle Halliwell and Cathy Nelson.
The event will be repeated in 2020 for those with less than 10MP at the start of the year.
Cath Whiddon and David Farmer triumphed in the 2019 Padman Trophy. They were leading with one session to go and managed to win the final session to confirm their victory.
Runners-up were Hans van Weeren and Anne Small ahead of Jan McLennan and Linda Abbenbroek.
The Padman was played over eleven Tuesday nights from February through December with the top 9 scores counting.
Susan Eason and Sandy Carter dominated the 2019 U20MP Individual competition, equal winners ahead of Bronwyn Neal and Lynne Talmont who were equal third.
The event was played on the first Friday of each month from March through November - with the best seven of these nine possible session scores counting. Susan and Sandy averaged an impressive 66.18%. Susan and Sandy won the same event in 2018, but will unfortunately no longer be eligible in 2020.
Check the latest Australian Bridge Federation Newsletter.
Items include: Workshops With Will: William Jenner-O’Shea, ABF Marketing Report: Peter Cox, ABF Education: Joan Butts, Bridge Vid: Peter Hollands, The Value Of Four Trumps: Mike Lawrence, Coaching Cathy At Contract: David Lusk, A Game At The Club: Barbara Travis, Australian Open Playoff: Sartaj Hans, Spring Nationals: Liam Milne & Ron Klinger, Improve Your Defence: Ron Klinger, Suit Combinations: Brad Coles, Bridge Into The 21st Century: Paul Lavings, How Would You Play? Barbara Travis, ABF Youth Initiatives: Leigh Gold, Around The Clubs...
Enjoy.
In a close and surprising finish the Farmer team (Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, David Farmer and Cath Whiddon) had a strong final week, managing to climb from 7th to win the 2019 Club Teams Championship, ahead of the Ardill team (Jen Ardill, Peter Clarke, Anne Small and Hans van Weeren) and the Kolding team (Marieta Borthwick, Annegrete Kolding, Heidi Colenbrander and Nerida Gillies) in third place.
The Milovanovic team (Lisa Dunphy, Maris Taylor, Alessandro Gado and Aleks Milovanovic) who were leading for much of the event came fourth. Notably there was only ten VPs difference between first and sixth place teams, the top half of the 12 team event.
We will be having a dinner get-together for all Peninsula members participating in the Canberra Summer Festival of Bridge 2020. I have made a provisional booking at Bamiyan on 62/10 Lonsdale St, Braddon, for Sunday 12 January at 7pm. Bamiyan is a wonderful Afghani restaurant, an easy 10 minute walk from the Rex. It is licensed but you may also BYO – corkage $3 pp.
As it is a very busy time in Canberra, I need to confirm numbers by 30 December so please email me ASAP at
Look forward to seeing you all in Canberra!
Heidi Colenbrander
Cath and Bob Whiddon spied an appeal in Pittwater Online News, and asked Peninsula Bridge Club if they could ask our members to help.
And help they did. Ten carloads of donated unwrapped toys, non perishable food, toiletries and other goods are on their way from club members to four drought-stricken towns in western NSW.
Janet Cater (pictured) has first hand experience of living through drought on the land and brought in many bags of toys, toiletries and food.
The 2019 year long Sloman Cup was won by Aleksander Milovanovic and Alessandro Gado, decisively with a 70+% score in the final round (according to the report posted on Facebook). They finished ahead of Alan Davies and Vivien Eldridge, and in third place David Farmer and Catherine Whiddon.
The 2019 Sloman Cup was played on the first Thursday of each month from March through November, with the best six scores counting.
Check the full ranking and session scores. Note that the winning pair only played in six sessions so had no ability to drop their worst scores.
