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.
In a close and surprising finish the Farmer team (Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, David Farmer and Cath Whiddon) had a strong final week, managing to climb from 7th to win the 2019 Club Teams Championship, ahead of the Ardill team (Jen Ardill, Peter Clarke, Anne Small and Hans van Weeren) and the Kolding team (Marieta Borthwick, Annegrete Kolding, Heidi Colenbrander and Nerida Gillies) in third place.
The Milovanovic team (Lisa Dunphy, Maris Taylor, Alessandro Gado and Aleks Milovanovic) who were leading for much of the event came fourth. Notably there was only ten VPs difference between first and sixth place teams, the top half of the 12 team event.
The 2019 year long Sloman Cup was won by Aleksander Milovanovic and Alessandro Gado, decisively with a 70+% score in the final round (according to the report posted on Facebook). They finished ahead of Alan Davies and Vivien Eldridge, and in third place David Farmer and Catherine Whiddon.
The 2019 Sloman Cup was played on the first Thursday of each month from March through November, with the best six scores counting.
Check the full ranking and session scores. Note that the winning pair only played in six sessions so had no ability to drop their worst scores.
Cath and Bob Whiddon spied an appeal in Pittwater Online News, and asked Peninsula Bridge Club if they could ask our members to help.
And help they did. Ten carloads of donated unwrapped toys, non perishable food, toiletries and other goods are on their way from club members to four drought-stricken towns in western NSW.
Janet Cater (pictured) has first hand experience of living through drought on the land and brought in many bags of toys, toiletries and food.
Peninsula pairs took out the first two places in the Wollstonecraft Pairs event on Sun 6 Oct!
Ado Hardy and Derek Tyms, won ahead of Anne Small and Lori Neville. You can check the full results.
Congratulations to all four - doing our club proud!
Trumps proved victorious at Peninsula Bridge Club on Sunday 29 September in a closely fought battle for the Metro North Interclub Pairs Challenge, a few points ahead of Peninsula Bridge Club, with North Shore, Balgowlah-Dee Why and Manly Leagues filling out the remaining positions.
The event saw 72 pairs represent these five major clubs, the largest field ever for this event with its 36 tables somewhat higher than the three tables in the first time this event was run in 2008. Peninsula and the event organisers, led by convenor Cath Whiddon, were applauded for hosting a great event. Thanks to our volunteers who did not play and gave up their time to make it a great day: Bill, Joan, Bob and Andrew, also to Gayle who organised the catering.
Premises Update
I am pleased to be able to share good news regarding our future clubhouse.
Council value our club and the community benefits which it delivers. They have been in close communication with the Club throughout this year.
It is allocating a large dedicated room within the new Warriewood Valley Community Centre for the club, designed to meet our particular needs. The room will be dividable, so that lessons , practice play or small sessions can take place in conjunction with regular duplicate sessions. The whole area will be used for our larger events.
