Following on from the Teams event in October, the Pairs event was held at East Lindfield on Sun 27th November.
The Peninsula Bridge Club used to publish an occasional newsletter called Peninsula News, until Covid.
For technical reasons, newsletters from 2017 - 2019 are not currently available.
You can find a copy of earlier newsletters (2011-16) on the website. Copies of newsletters in the period 1998-2010 are kept in the Club library.
Our directors are critical to our success in providing our members and visitors a great place to play bridge - from the newest player in a Practice Play session to a top-flight competitor in one of our congresses.
We are fortunate to have a large group of members who have volunteered to undertake the training to handle most of our sessions. We supplement these directors with external directors from time to time to handle some of our major competitions. You can see our directors and read their response to the question of why they became a director below:
OUR VOLUNTEER MEMBER DIRECTORS:
Vickie Busteed
"I agreed to become a director because of my interest in teaching. The challenge also attracted me."
Sachiko Cathcart
Alan Davies
"I agreed to be a director when I was asked, and have always enjoyed it."
Vivien Eldridge
"I was asked to be Masterpoints Secretary, and then found out that this meant I had to become a director as well."
David Farmer
"I started directing to learn more about the game. I am continually impressed with directors making decisions and choosing movements that find the right balance between the social and competitive aspects of the game - always an interesting challenge. Our club is very fortunate to have a body of member directors prepared to help out the club in this way."
Simon Hunter
"John Rogers made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I enjoy directing, it's interesting and a way to contribute to the club. I have certainly learnt a lot."
Susan Jensen
"I became a director because I was a member of the Bridge Education team."
Leofric Kingsford-Smith
"I believe directing is about running a smooth and enjoyable session rather than just enforcing rules."
Bruce Kleem
"The main reason I was prepared to undertake the Directors course and the challengers of the directing role was to support our great club and members.
Hopefully this will also lead to a better understanding of this great game and improve my level of play."
Annegrete Kolding
Max Paterson
Sue Riley
"I volunteered when asked. I enjoyed playing in the club and thought I might help out."
John Rogers
Jim Rothwell
Terry Rothwell
Chief Director. "Our Bridge Club is run by volunteers and because, at one stage some years ago, there was a shortage of Club Directors, I volunteered. Being a Director can be quite demanding, but it is also a real pleasure to help members enjoy themselves playing a really interesting and challenging game."
Anne Small
"I started playing bridge in August 2004 and became so involved with game I decided to learn the rules becoming a director and teacher in 2005. Laws have seen many changes in that time but always with the view of fairness and understanding of systems to make the game a more level playing field. I have learnt that your only friend at the table is your partner so be kind and respectful to them.”
Cath Whiddon
"I undertook director training in 2011 when we decided to introduce supervised duplicate sessions at our club and so I could offer to direct restricted sessions at our special events."
Peninsula Bridge Club Inc is a non-profit association, incorporated under the NSW Association Incorporations Act (2009) and Associations Incorporation Regulation (2016) which are administered by the NSW Department of Fair Trading. The Club's Constitution was updated by a Special General Meeting on 16 May 2018 to take into account the 2016 Regulations with two further amendments approved at the AGM on 29 September 2018 and further amendments approved at the AGM on 26 November 2022.
The club Teams Championship was held over three Thursdays in November and nine teams participated in an enjoyable event.
Congratulations to Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, Sandy Carter and Nerida Gillies who won with John and Margaret Rogers, Lynn Baker and Chris Duggin not far behind.
We hope to run more Teams events in 2023.
Congratulations to Lyn Baker and Jim Stewart who came first in Division A of the Metro North Inter-Club Pairs.
Congratulations to Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, Sandy Carter and Nerida Gillies who won the club Teams Championship.
Congratulations to Sandy Carter and Nerida Gillies who, together with Colin Speller and Jodie Gudaitis from the Central Coast, won the 2022 State Novice and Restricted Teams in Wollongong. Also to John Simmonds, Sachiko Cathcart, Trish Berry and Sue Evershed who came fifth.
The Australia-Wide Restricted (U300) Pairs results are available here. Congratulations to Noleen Cregan and Suzanne Cole who placed FIRST with a score of 70.9%!
After 9 months, this closely fought competition concluded with Ian Hobbs and Roslyn Braund the joint winners (59.7%) ahead of Jane Cummings and Anne Moulston (58.5%) and Barbara and Liam Gavin (58.4%). Congratulations!
Although this was an individual competition, many players played as a pair throughout. The best 7 scores were counted.
Thankyou to Jen Ardill and Vicki Busteed for convening.
A successful Charity Day was held in the clubhouse on Wed 19th October.
We raised $3,120 to add to our Charity account which has $1,464 and will donate $4,500 (once the figures have been confirmed) to One Meal (Northern Beaches branch) who specialise in providing meals and other services directly to the needy and other humanitarian local support groups.
Thankyou to everyone who donated and helped and Rob Scott for organising.
You can see some photos here.
