Bridge Club News
Bruce Neill, President of the ABF, attended the Teacher Training Program Day at Peninsula Bridge Club on 9 April 2017 as an interested observer.
He expressed his support for the successful Bridge Education Program that operates at Peninsula. "The lifeblood of any bridge club is its education program, and is key to the growth of the bridge community."
He praised the wonderful work that Cath Whiddon does for the game of bridge, as director of bridge education at Peninsula and as a teacher trainer conducting Teacher Training Program days. "Part of the ABF Strategy is to ensure that bridge teachers are well trained and use modern teaching materials and methods."
Cath Whiddon gave a brilliant Teacher Training workshop at Peninsula today which was attended by people from all over NSW - from South of Wollongong to Coffs Harbour.
Bruce Neil, the president of the Australian Bridge Federation (ABF) was present to support Cath and explain how important the Bridge education program was to the future of the game. All the smiling faces show just how well received the workshop was.
Joan Butts led a workshop on Entries for improver and intermediate players on Saturday 8 April.
Forty players found the workshop to be really helpful - they are all keen to put their 5 tips into action ... & bid & make 7S!.
Thirty six pairs competed for the Michael Marks Shield on Saturday 1 April. Winners in 2017 were Catherine Whiddon and David Farmer ahead of Colin and Una Mingay and in equal third place, Sue and Len Evershed and Joan Murdoch and Pauline Haynes.
The full results can be found on this site for the near future. The session was well directed by Sue Falkingham.
When declarer makes their plan, the last consideration must be to decide in which order they will take their tricks. This Joan Butts Bridge Declarer Play - Entries workshop on Saturday 8 April (9.30-11.30am) will give you an easy plan to make sure you reach those winners. It is multi-level material suitable for all improving players.
Workshop is followed by the nornal duplicate game at 12.30pm with hand analysis led by Joan Butts and Cath Whiddon, along with a glass of wine and cheese, at 4pm
You can come to both without a partner.
Check the event for full information including costs and how to book.
Thirty two teams competed in a great day at the Peninsula Teams Congress on Sunday 26 March.
Congratulations to the Peninsula team of Annegrete Kolding, Marieta Borthwick, Ray Hurst and Heidi Colenbrander who won the Restricted category.
In the Open category, the winners were the Fleischer team (George Fleischer, Matthew Vadas, Andrew Peake, Peter Gill), ahead of Kaplan (Rena Kaplan, Anita Curtis, Tony Leibowitz, David Beauchamp) and A. Baker (Ann Baker, Helena Dawson, Susan Humphries, Colin Baker).
Congratulations to Catherine Whiddon/David Farmer, Vona Hadfield/Hans Van Weeren, Joan Fawcett/Norman Grech and Lynn Baker/Peter Robinson for finishing first to fourth in the three week State Mixed Pairs qualifier and thus being eligible for the Club's payment of their entry into the State Mixed Pairs Championship on 27-28 May. Go Peninsula.
You can check the qualifier full results.
A great win by Sandie Rooke and Alan Davies at the Swiss Pairs event on 22 March.
They were hotly followed by Marieta Borthwick and Vivien Eldridge and Terry and Lois Rothwell who came equal second.
It was such a well organised and fun evening with 13 tables, despite the torrential rain during the early part of the night. We were lucky to have Joan Butts to introduce the evening and point out the different aspects of play and scoring when taking part in an IMPs scoring event like Swiss Pairs.
The full results can be found (for a while at least) on our Results page.
