Join us for some relaxed kitchen bridge on Sunday 14 July at 3pm at the Peninsula Bridge Club.
Get together your foursome or just come along and we'll find you a table. Friends and family welcome.
BYO drinks and nibbles. Tea and coffee will be available. $3 members and visitors.
Each table will deal their own cards and score or not score as they wish. No masterpoints, no Bridgemates, no stress! Inquiries to Beth Randall.
On Monday 23 June the Members and Novices Teams was a fun day with many novice members enjoying the first or second experience playing in a team event. Photos of all the teams can be found on our PBC Facebook Group - please consider joining this group!
It was well attended with two categories - a Green category with a partly experienced Novice pair combined with Restricted team mates, and a Blue category with a Novice pair with no teams experience combined with an Open pair. Everyone played the Peninsula Basic System to make it a pleasant more even playing experience for our novice players.
May has been another busy month with members competing in a variety of events and competitions both at the club and elsewhere in the country.
Congratulations to everyone, especially to the 12 pairs who entered the new Cath Whiddon Cup, for members with less than 15 Master Points. Well done to Margaret Wayland and Peter Sate who won the 3 week event.
Looking ahead to this month, on 24 June, the Members and Novices (under 50MP) Teams event is a lovely opportunity for newer and more experienced players to team up and play in a friendly introduction to Teams - find a four and sign up!
Thank you to the club for launching a tournament for all of us falling under 15 MPs, commemorating the fabulous Cath Whiddon.
Most of us have had lessons with Cath and have learned so much from her. Appreciating her kindness and sense of humour in the face of our sometimes difficult learning experience. Thing is we are all improving thanks to Cath and remember that if diamonds are not forever, and clubs are for cave people, we will always bid hearts or spades and hope for the best.
Congratulations to all the pairs who participated over three consecutive Mondays and to our inaugural winners Margaret Wayland and Peter Sate, and runners-up Doreen Heideman and Hazel Carroll!
The Australia Wide Novice Pairs (<100MP), organised by Australian Bridge, was played at Peninsula on Friday 31 May, with two sections each of 8 tables entering.
This event involves scoring across the entire field covering many Australian bridge clubs with about two thirds of the entries submitted so far - so it is too early to be certain how we fared. Normally we would have local results in the interim but with two sections even this is not completely certain, though the raw score of 68.45% by Sue Evershed and John Simmonds in one of the sections was definitely impressive.
Coming up on Mon 24 Jun is our Members and Novices Teams. This is a single afternoon teams event, designed to introduce newer players to the fun of teams.
Two experienced players combine with two newer players (<50MP) as teams - pairs can play in any combination. Everyone plays the Peninsula Basic System (Green Card) - these are out of print but you can download it here.
Join the fun by registering on the noticeboard by noon Fri 21 Jun. Check the event for all the details. Inquiries to convener, Cath Whiddon.
In an impressive comeback from a poor start the Davies team managed to win the three week 2019 State Open Teams qualifier in the very last match. Apologies to the Duggin team...
Ten teams battled it out, over three Thursdays in May. Director Brian Soutter gave us a nine match round robin, with three matches per week. Unlike a Swiss movement this completely fair movement makes it hard to know who the interim leaders are, and a number of teams made it harder still with volatile performances.
Thirty one pairs entered the 2019 Lawrence Shield event on Saturday 1 June. This event commemorates the huge contribution Verl and John Lawrence have made to the club over many decades.
Verl almost won the event, playing with Lloyd Cleaver, but came second to Vivien Eldridge and Patrick Starck. Congratulations to Vivien and Patrick.
The top five pairs and their % results were as follows:
