Lots of food and lots of friendly faces at this year’s Christmas Party. Check out the photos!
Thanks to all those volunteers who helped – you are the club’s Christmas present to our members.
(And particular thanks to Gayle who dropped out of playing on the day to fill in for the expected help who was unexpectedly ill on the day! And also to Andrew Ikin for doing all sorts of unexpected tasks on the day - David.)
Congratulations to Bronwyn Neal and Lynne Talmont who won the 2019 U10 Individual event, played over the year on the first Wednesday of the month from March through November. Each individual's best seven scores count. This is the first major event in which many of our newer players compete.
Bronwyn and Lynne won the event as equal first ahead of Anthony Colenbrander, and then in equal fourth place, Janelle Halliwell and Cathy Nelson.
The event will be repeated in 2020 for those with less than 10MP at the start of the year.
Check the latest Australian Bridge Federation Newsletter.
Items include: Workshops With Will: William Jenner-O’Shea, ABF Marketing Report: Peter Cox, ABF Education: Joan Butts, Bridge Vid: Peter Hollands, The Value Of Four Trumps: Mike Lawrence, Coaching Cathy At Contract: David Lusk, A Game At The Club: Barbara Travis, Australian Open Playoff: Sartaj Hans, Spring Nationals: Liam Milne & Ron Klinger, Improve Your Defence: Ron Klinger, Suit Combinations: Brad Coles, Bridge Into The 21st Century: Paul Lavings, How Would You Play? Barbara Travis, ABF Youth Initiatives: Leigh Gold, Around The Clubs...
Enjoy.
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.
