We had a great turnout of 32 teams for the Swiss Teams Congress at Peninsula on Sunday. There were some very impressive names in the field. John McIlrath did a splendid job of directing on the day. The Hans team consisting of Sartaj Hans, Fraser Rew, Sophie Ashton and Susan Humphries were unbeatable with 7 wins. Coming in 2nd place was the Bock team with Steven Bock, John Newman, Derrick Browne and Joshua Wyner and in 3rd place the Sharp team with Marilyn Chadwick, Toni Sharp, Liz Fanos and George Finikiotis. Best Peninsula team was the Bertram team that did extremely well and came 5th with Jocelyn Bertram, Chris Duggin, Margaret and Michael Draper. The best restricted team was the Fawcett team with Fiona Fawcett, Michelle Levy, Kerry Rymer & Kit Meyers. Congratulations to all these teams. Click here for the full results.
The results for the Sloman Cup and the Padman Trophy will be updated monthly and you will find these under Results/Other Results. You will also find the results for the Autumn Individual.
Congratulations to Alan Davies for having a great win in the last round of the Autumn Individual to win the title. Trish Giles came 2nd with Rachael Loomes in 3rd place. If you would like to look at the overall scores, please find these under Results/Other Results.
PBC is celebrating it's 50th anniversary this year and would like to invite all members for a FREE session of bridge and a spectacular lunch. All members are welcome to attend this fun filled day on Saturday 3rd September. We will be starting the day at 10am sharp with a session of bridge and then lunch at 1pm.
Congratulations to the Duggin team consisting of Chris, Jocelyn Bertram, Cath Whiddon and Anne Small to win the State Open Teams. The Scotford team came 2nd with the Davies team 3rd.
The Members only Teams was won by the Fawcett team that consisted of Joan, Joan Rutherford, Eunice Newman & Colin Dempster. They won 4 out of their 5 rounds. The Bertram team came 2nd with the Evershed team 3rd. Well done to all these teams.
The annual Charles Mitchell Members Only Pairs competition was won by Cath Whiddon and David Farmer. There were 43 pairs competing. The runners up were Jo Jarvis and Trish Giles just ahead of Peter Clarke and Vivien Eldridge.
Thanks to the director Sue Falkingham who managed to run a special movement to give one winning pair.
A good day was had by all at the Peninsula Swiss Pairs Congress. The winners were David Weston and Kim Morrison. Peninsula did very well in the Restricted section with Tom Wykoff and Len Evershed in first place and Terry and Jim Rothwell second. The best Peninsula pair were Alan Davies and Vivien Eldridge.
Thanks to Ronnie Ng for a very smoothly run congress. Also thanks to the kitchen helpers and everyone who contributed food for the tables. Everyone really appreciated the food,
Jim's son Matthew worked as a caddy so we were very pleased to have three generations of Rothwells at the club.
For the full results click here.
