Bridge Club News

Many of you will remember that we almost cancelled a Monday afternoon playing session due to a planned power outage for the building - but that this outage was itself postponed.

The power outage has been rescheduled, but this time at night from 10-12pm on Thu 3 May - so there should be no impact on the Bridge Club (though fingers crossed for the first session on Friday morning).

The power outage is part of preparation for the widening of Jacksons Road near Pittwater Road to allow a second lane of traffic turning right into Pittwater Road.

Joan and John Castle won the Michael Marks Shield against a field of 17 tables, ahead of Joan Fawcett and Sue Riley and Anne Small and Hans van Weeren. See more photos on our Facebook Group.

The Shield event remembers the solid contribution made by past president, Michael Marks, who during his presidential period in the late 1990s, oversaw the building of our current dedicated annex on the Nelson Heather Centre and the 21 year lease from the Council. Event convener, Annegrete Kolding, asked long term member, Sue Riley, to provide some background information. Interestingly John Castle was president at the time we first moved from the Mona Vale Golf Club to the Angophora Room in the Nelson Heather Centre.

Today's large field with a single winner tested our directors, Alan Davies and Cassandra Mitchell, as they were both running a Web Mitchell movement for the first time, complicated by adding in an Arrow Switch.

Anne Small received her well earned ABF Teacher's accreditation certificate on Thursday 5 April, with congratulations from President Sarah Young.

Anne is the fifth member to receive this teaching accreditation from the ABF and this is particularly well-timed for our Bridge Education team given Sue Falkingham's departure to Tasmania.

Following the Advanced 2/1 Workshop on Saturday 14 April, Anne will be the Bridge Education team's reference point for this increasingly popular system. See her ABF Teacher profile.

The Tuesday session on 3 April stopped to wish Heather Roseby a happy 90th birthday!

The cake was lovely and accompanied by some spectacular fragrant flowers.

And the 14 table bridge game was as competitive as always!

Peninsula travelled to the 2018 Central Coast Super Congress on 23-25 March. And we had some success, notably Marieta Borthwick and Annegrete Kolding were runners-up in the Restricted Swiss Pairs.

Other results to mention include Marieta and Annegrete teaming up with Heidi Colenbrander and Ray Hurst to come 8th equal in the Restricted Teams, and Carolyn Dowling, Chris Duggin, Lori Neville and Yvonne Perkins coming 15th in the Open Teams. Congratulations to those members.

Hopefully a photo is to come.

The Australian Bridge Federation calculates and publishes the club's best improvers (in terms of the most masterpoints gained) for each masterpoint ranking. Click the link for the full details of these McCutcheon rankings.

For the two months to end February Peninsula's highest masterpoint earner was Hans van Weeren on 55.28 just ahead of Peter Clarke on 52.26 and Alexander Cook on 35.46. 

Congratulations to these three and also to our leaders in each masterpoint category, who are as follows:

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The Australian Bridge Federation calculates and publishes the club's best improvers (in terms of the most masterpoints gained) for each masterpoint ranking. Click the link for the up-to-date full details of these McCutcheon rankings for our members.

For the three months to end March Peninsula's highest masterpoint earner was Hans van Weeren on 59.73 ahead of Peter Clarke on 52.88 and Alexander Cook on 37.42. 

Congratulations to these three and also to our leaders in each masterpoint category, who are as follows:

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The Australian Bridge Federation calculates and publishes the club's best improvers (in terms of the most masterpoints gained) for each masterpoint ranking. Click the link for the up-to-date full details of these McCutcheon rankings for our members.

For the three months to end March Peninsula's highest masterpoint earner was Robin Ho on 35.04 ahead of Alexander Cook on 34.2 and Vivien Eldridge on 33.94. 

Congratulations to these three and also to our leaders in each masterpoint category, who are as follows:

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