Bridge Club News

The Padman, contested at eleven evening sessions on the first Tuesday of each month between February and December, has again proved to be a popular event. A total of thirty pairs took part of which five competed at all eleven events. A further five achieved at least nine results and four more, at least seven.

The lead changed several times during the year but, in the end, David Farmer and Catherine Whiddon finished strongly and (helped by a couple of good results when Lyn Smith substituted for Cath) came through to take the Trophy from Jan Mclennan and Linda Addenbroek with Alan Davies and Vivien Eldridge not far away in third.

The Sloman Cup completed in December with congratulations going to Jocelyn Bertram and Chris Duggin ahead of Ray Hurst and Hans van Weeren who were just ahead of Ray Bragge and Tom Wykoff.

The best eight scores from the ten sessions were aggregated, with up to three different substitutes allowed. Eleven pairs managed to meet these tight conditions.

Peninsula hosted one of the locations where the NSWBA Under 100MP Championsip was played (on Fri 30 Nov). 18 pairs, including some from Central Coast and North Shore Bridge Clubs, competed at our club in this event scored across the state.

After some technical issues at the state-wide scoring portal, the scoring is largely complete - you can check the currently recorded state scores.

Congratulations to our most successful pair, Maggie Gibbs and Paddy Purves, who were placed 29th across the state. The placings by the four sub-categories are not yet tabulated.

This is a placeholder waiting for the official report, but unofficially 144 of us enjoyed a great day of bridge, food and fun. If you weren't there, you might wonder just what Sue Evershed is doing...

Check the Christmas Party photos, mostly be Len Evershed - thanks Len!

The many of our members who also spend hours each week on the golf course will be interested to hear of member Allison Kingscote's recent success.

On 29 October on the 5th hole (135m) at Warringah Golf Course, Allison sunk a hole-in-one. Not really being a golfer I understand this is somewhat rarer than bidding and making 7NT. A trophy is being presented shortly. 

Taken from the Australian Bridge Federation President's Report: "In our quest to attract more players and create a positive environment, clubs, states, territories and the ABF rely heavily on volunteers. Wednesday 5 December is International Volunteer Day. I encourage you all to thank a volunteer for the time they give to building the Australian Bridge community."

Peninsula Bridge Club has more than a hundred known member volunteers, and some others that work very quietly behind the scenes - please choose one (or more) and say thank you.

Members may wish to read the ABF December Newsletter just released in electronic form. 

Printed copies are most likely on their way to the club.

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Sixteen teams battled for the 2018 Club Teams Championship over three weeks, playing 90 boards.

The Farmer team (Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, Lyn Smith, Cath Whiddon and yours truly) emerged triumphant, 24 VPs ahead of the runner-up Draper team (Ray Bragge, Margaret and Michael Draper and Anne Small) who were only two ahead of the third place Ody team (Colin Dempster, Alessandro Gado, Brian Ody and Patrick Starck).

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