Peninsula Bridge Club hosted the Metro North Interclub Pairs on Sunday 27 Sep with 116 players across four fields: U15, U100, U300 and Open. It was held online on BBO this year, with Ronnie Ng and Alan Bustany as our directors.
Three regional clubs, North Shore Bridge Club, Trumps Bridge Centre and ourselves, entered full fields, with an additional two pairs from Narrabeen RSL and Killara Bridge Clubs joining Trumps to balance the numbers from these three. Successes were varied across the four fields:
It has now been decided not to have an extra fifth round of this competition due to there being the Bridge Education Anniversary clubhouse session on Sept 29th (there will be an open BBO session at 1.30), so the winners are the pairs with the best three results after the fourth round, which was directed by Heidi Colenbrander without the intervention of BBO or any other gremlins! Accordingly, I am pleased to announce the winners:
Open Division: Vivien Eldridge and Alan Davies
Under 200 Division: Chris Dixon and Robert Gaven
Under 35 Division: Savitri Newman and Simon Hunter
Congratulations to all of these and to everyone who took part. A full listing of scores can be accessed here.
We shall be holding a similar cumulative event in October
There will be a third SALT teams event on BBO on Monday evenings at 7:30pm (or earlier) starting on September14th with 2 divisions (roughly U100 MPs and Open).
In the meantime, ATTENTION - novice and other 'newish' players!
We have participated in both of the two recent SALT competitions and highly recommend these events! As relatively new and inexperienced players, we have loved the opportunity to learn about team play in this friendly setting, and definitely intend to sign up again. It would be fabulous to have additional teams in the next competition, and we encourage you to join us.
The 2020 Michael Marks Shield was run at the clubhouse on the afternoon of Thu 27 Aug - the first special event to be run in our reopened COVID-Safe clubhouse. Red points were awarded.
Congratulations to Vince Cariola and Sue Hapek who won the event, narrowly over runners-up Heidi Colenbrander and Ray Hurst, and Linda Abbenbroek and Jan McLennan in third place.
Michael Marks was Peninsula's president for 4 years while we were arranging our first dedicated clubhouse connected to the Nelson Heather Centre. He was instrumental in negotiating a favourable long term lease agreement and designing the space we have.
Thanks to Cassandra Mitchell for convening and directing the event.
You can view the Council's Public Exhibition and have your say here and in particular the Players Hall which will be our new home when the Centre is complete.
Northern Beaches Council on 25 August unanimously approved taking this concept design to Public Exhibition during September with the results of that engagement to be reported back to Council at its October meeting. Provided the Public Exhibition results are generally favourable it is expected that Council will approve proceeding with the Development Application.
Our new clubhouse meets the important needs of the club:
The results after the final round of the PBC Online Pairs Championship held over the last three Tuesdays are:
Congratulations to Cath Whiddon and David Farmer for their resounding win in the Open Division . Runners-up were Ian Bailey and Peter Robinson with Annegrete Kolding and Sarah Young in a very creditable third place.
In the Under 300 Masterpoint Division Suzanne Cole and Noleen Cregan held on to win whilst Trish Thomson and Marieta Borthwick in second just kept at bay third place-getters Margaret Titley and Alison Pratten.
The Under 100 event was a real nail-biter. Bronwyn Neal and Simon Hunter won by a mere 0.35 points from Savitri Newman and Kay Parker whilst a blinder of a last round from Joan and Roger Perkins left them less than three points behind in third.
In the Under 15 Division Dee Rowe and Bob Allen maintained their consistent form to stay ahead of another fast-finishing couple, Leah and David Boyd. Neil Mitchell and John O’Riordan finished a respectable third.
Many members of the club will remember Patricia MacDougal who was a member until 2017 and who recently turned 100 on the 10th of August. Congratulations and our best wishes.
The following article appears courtesy of the Mona Vale Gold Club, thank you to Suzanne Cole..
The now infamous words 'in these unprecedented times' aptly describe the last 5-6 months during which our club has reinvented itself, both online and with a 'different' clubhouse reopening on 29 June.
Many members have worked tirelessly so our members could stay connected and play bridge. Who could have imagined six months ago how active Peninsula players would become in online pairs and teams tournaments?
At the same time investigations were made about how and when the club could reopen and comply with the relevant Public Health Orders - and then appropriate procedures were developed and implemented. The clubhouse may not be the same as pre-COVID-19, but it's open, and we are cautiously moving forward under the mantra 'Safe Bridge=Great Bridge'.
