Bridge Club News
Our first clubhouse competition for our green or novice players since COVID took place over four Friday mornings in November, with the best three individual scores counting, While this was an individual event, it seems most players played with the same partner for all three or four weeks.
Congratulations to the winners, Irina Taran and Bill Davis, ahead of Penny Hayes and Di Garstang and Phillip Mitchell and John O'Riordan.
Nine teams battled for the 2020 Club Teams Championship over three weeks in November, with congratulations to the Smith team (Linda Abbenbroek, Jan McLennan, Anne Small and Lyn Smith) who emerged triumphant ahead of the Whiddon team (Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, David Farmer and Cath Whiddon) and the Treasure team (Yvonne Perkins, Lois Rothwell, Terry Rothwell and Leslie Treasure). For many competitors this was the first time back to the clubhouse - it was good to see them there.
Our external director, Ronnie Ng, ran an American Whist teams movement ensuring that all teams played each other over the three weeks. This was new to many players but proved to be a good choice with 9 teams over three sessions. However it proved too much for our normal website results display service. Consequently the results are linked here:
After six grueling weeks and a good deal of chopping and changing amongst the leaders, the winners have finally emerged. As promised, a bottle of (fairly) decent red wine (2016 Shottesbrooke Single Vineyard Shiraz) goes to each of the following:
Blue Division (Open): Leslie Treasure and Carolyn Dowling
Red Division (U120): Sue Evershed and John Simmonds
Green Division (U20): Neil Mitchell and John O’Riordan
Details of the results are to be found here.
This brings to an end the series of Cumulative events we have been holding every Tuesday since June. We shall start a new series later in January but, in the meantime, there will be stand-alone events for Open and Under 100 fields.
By way of recap, here are the winners of all the events this year:
Melbourne Cup 2020 at Peninsula Bridge club was marked by teamwork and fun. Members enjoyed a memorable day with good bridge, good company and a great race, peppered with music, games, and fascinating headwear. Thanks to everyone who helped make this day such fun.
One of the Peninsula Bridge Club’s major events, The Club Teams Championship, is to be conducted on three Thursdays during November, the 12th, 19th and 26th, starting at 1pm on each day.
Members only. Red points.
The long awaited Online Teams Congress will be held by the New South Wales Bridge Association this Sunday 25th October 2020! Even more exciting, they are going to host this Teams event on a brand new online platform REALBRIDGE – an online platform on which you can see (yes see!) and talk to your partner, teammates and opponents at the bridge table. This is really the next best thing you can have to a face to face congress.
The Congress will start at 10.00am on Sunday 25th October, 2020 on RealBridge:
The Club ran a gold point teams event in the clubhouse over three Thursday sessions in October. Twelve teams competed, each playing six matches of twelve boards.
Congratulations to the winners of the event: Anne Small, Lynn Smith, Jan McLennan and Linda Abbenbroek.
Members of teams received gold masterpoints for each winning match. Ronnie Ng directed.
The event was run using a Swiss draw after the opening round was determined based upon the order of teams’ entry (quasi random).
We are now looking at SALT4. Given the proximity of the year end and in the interests of exposing club members to different types of competitions I am proposing the following:
Start date 26 October End date 14 December.
Play times Monday evening. Substitutes allowed.
Matches 2 10 board matches (as with SALT3). Scoring IMPS/VPs (same as SALT3). Masterpoints Green.
Structure one division. Swiss format (means after 1st round each team plays the nearest ranked team that it hasn’t already played). The result is you tend to play teams of your own standard.
Cost TBD (estimated one off payment of $30-$35 per player). Please let both Viv Eldridge and myself know if you wish to enter.
As always we run a matchmaking service if you don’t have a full team
- SALT 3 Teams Competition Monday evenings - results
- Help with Play Online Series
- Charlie Mitchell Shield 2020
- Metro North Interclub Pairs 2020
- October Online Pairs competition
- September Online Pairs competition - Result
- Michael Marks Shield 2020
- Centurion: Patricia MacDougal
- Ode to Bridge
- Ada Duignan's Memorial Service
