Congratulations to Hans van Weeren, winner of the 2019 Jean Stebbins Trophy, ahead of Alan Davies and Anne Small.
The Stebbins is a four week individual event with entrants needing to play with different partners for each week. The best three scores count.
The first ten places together with their average % score (of their best three) are as follows:
Following a recommendation by our Bridge Education group, the Club has decided to rename our "Supervised Sessions" to "Practice Play" to better reflect what goes on.
Nothing else has changed and our Practice Play session directors look forward to seeing you there!
Any questions? Talk with Anne Small 0422 185 733 regarding the Monday 6.45pm practice play session, Vickie Busteed 0411 65 204 re the Tuesday 2.15pm session and Terry Rothwell for the Friday 9.15am session.
PBC’s Under 100 MP Club Pairs Championship, an honour board and red points event, was conducted over 3 Fridays in October and was a great success with 11 pairs playing all 3 sessions of 24 boards.
Congratulations to Robert Scott and Bruce Kleem - the overall winners of the competition by the smallest of margins scoring 187.8% points followed by Nerida Gillies and Sandy Carter with 187.5.
The winners of the 15 to 50 MP category were Anne Brown and Bill Fitzsimons with 163.2% points closely followed by the runners up Margaret Wayland and Lynne Talmont scoring of 159.7.
The 0 to 15 MP category was won by Jacqueline Park and Georg Somerville with 144.5% points and runners up were Kay Armstrong and Merrenna Carter with 100.0.
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.
Celebrating a special birthday for one of our members is always a lovely event. It is an important aspect of the wonderful Peninsula Bridge Club community.
If you know of someone who is turning 90 or 95 and they are happy with the idea of a public celebration then the Club is happy to organise it or support you organising it. Please alert the committee ahead of time so that it can be advertised to the appropriate sessions and ensure photos are taken for our TV slideshow and website/newsletter. (You can check if one of our volunteer photographers is available by emailing
Expenses up to $60 for a card, cake and/or flowers will be reimbursed against a claim with receipts. For other special days please be careful to check with one of the office-bearers for approval before raising any expectations.
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.
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.
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.
