Bridge Club News

This clinic is highly recommended - not to be missed!

We, on the Bridge Education committee, are constantly looking for ways to help you improve your game and hence your enjoyment of the game. This month we have invited Joan Butts to present two workshops on Sunday 19 May.

Joan is one of Australia’s best known bridge teachers, Joan Butts. The workshops are multi-level and suitable for players of all abilities.

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We had a great teams congress at Peninsula on Sunday 28 April with 37 tables. Thanks to director Ronnie Ng who coped well with the stress of a team not turning up.

Len, Gayle, Nerida and Sarah took second place in the restricted, with Jocelyn, Lyn, Vivien and myself the best Peninsula open team (but not great...). It was great to see Kate McCallum, current world champion, competing with us. Check the full results.

Thanks to all those who helped in any way especially Gayle King for organising all the food and Bill Fitzsimons who gave up his Sunday to caddy and Di Agostino and Terry Rothwell for the extra last minute dealing and especially Annegrete Kolding who was assistant convenor but on the day was too sick to attend.

Update your Diary. The Charity Day has moved from June to Monday 22 July, commencing at 11am.

Check all the Charity Day event details or talk with the conveners, Trish Berry and Sue Riley. 

Cost is $25 this includes lunch and afternoon tea - all monies raised will go to Rural Fire Service and the Palliative Care Unit at Mona Vale Hospital. Invite your friends.

I am pleased to announce the start of a new Honour Board pairs competition, the Cath Whiddon Cup, for our many "super novice" players. In 2019 this will be restricted to players with less than 15MP as at end March, but this level might vary in future years.

Entrants will play as a pair over three Mondays 20 and 27 May and 3 June. Check the event details.

In announcing this competition the Committee and Tournament Sub-Committee are responding to the fact that more than one third of Peninsula’s members have less than 15MP.

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The club celebrated Betty Bevins' birthday on Monday 15 April. Flowers accompanied a tribute by the President.

Betty has been a stalwart member of the club for many years - and it was great to see the well wishes of the other Monday players.

Thank you to Annegrete Kolding for the photo.

Members may be interested to know that Warriewood Square is changing its approach to parking, introducing 2 and 3 hour time limits to most of its parking.

You can find the full details of the new parking arrangements on the Warriewood Square website.

Twelve pairs completed the three week State Mixed Pairs Qualifier event played in March.

Cath Whiddon and David Farmer triumphed over Barbara Gassman and Patrick Starck with Alan Davies and Vivien Eldridge in third place.

Check the full results from our website. The top four pairs able to play in the State Final will have their entries paid by the Club.

Ten teams competed in the 2019 Gold Point Teams (GNOT qualifier) event over three weeks in March.

Congratulations to the Davies team (Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, Alexander Cook and Tony Allen) who triumphed with a win over second placed Farmer team (David Farmer, Cath Whiddon, Jocelyn Bertram, Lyn Smith) in the last round - we played a 9 match round robin so all teams played all of the other teams.

Check the full results on our website. The top two teams able to play in the Metro Final will have their entries paid for by the Club.