Congratulations

 Well done to Hamilton's Bill Barwood & Jiwan Dhaliwal for winning the Mount Maungauni Junior Pairs last weekend. With session results 67.60 and 65.69 they comfortably won in a field of 32 pairs.
This Junior Pairs is one of 6 events in I/J Leagues organised by Waikato Bays. After 4 rounds Bill and Jiwan hold 3rd & 4th places in the J League.

Also held at the Mount at the same time was the Intermediate Pairs were Megan Jolly & Leanne Curry in a competitive field of 24 pairs finished 3rd.
In the I League Megan and Leanne are currently in 4th and 5th place.

  Congratulations to the HAMILTON TEAM for winning the 2024 Interclub Trophy

  In Cambridge today ( Sunday 23rd ) the Hamilton team competed against teams from
  Waikato, Cambridge, Matamata and Te Aroha in a round robin teams competition
  As can be seen below Hamilton came out on top by a very small margin !
 
  The following members made up this year's Hamilton team -
  Open: Malcolm Smith - Jeffrey Chang / Karen Harris - Michael Curry
  Intermediate: Trini Lin - Catherine Cameron / Nigel Gresson - Helen Rinaldi
  Junior: Jiwan Dhaliwal - Bill Barwood / Larissa Eyre - Iain Paterson
 

Welcome to the Hamilton 2024 Craigs Multi Grade Pairs - Photos above: Orders from the "Boss" !

Thank you to our Sponsor   

Tuesday, 7 May and Craigs Multi Grade Pairs was our first attempt at "re-bridging" what was in the past known as Ladies Day. Unfortunately for the Club and the players this format seemed to have had its day over the last few years. 32 pairs beating the numbers for the last 2 years played in the 2024 Craigs Investment sponsored Multi Grade Event which was a trifecta for the Hamilton Club by winning the first 3 overall places !!
Prizes were presented by Chantal Baxter from Craigs Hamilton office.

The winners were -
( click any of the photos for a larger view )

Craigs Multi Grade Pairs winners Barry Jones & Jenny Millington Hamilton

2nd place overall Catherine Cameron & Helen Rinaldi Hamilton

3rd place overall Judith Brooks & Colleen De Luen Hamilton

Intermediate / Junior Teams Championships date changes
 
Principal change is the Championship Teams now starts April 4th
( Thursday after Easter ) running on new dates for the next 5 weeks
 
The reasoning behind this is Numbers for Thursday night have been poor and variable as regards numbers wise this year along with ANZAC day falling on a Thursday.
This makes running a Teams Competition very difficult for the the Director / Partner Steward as Teams requires requires the same numbers for each week of the event. In addition the event needs a reasonable number of Teams to make the event interesting and competitive for the players.
Due to the numbers experienced this year it has been decided to change the event to a Butler Pairs event ( Swiss type scoring like Teams ) starting on April 4. This will allow for greater latitude in the number of players each week as it has no need to be the same as that for the starting week of the competition.
The championships will be held as advertised for both Intermediate and Junior Grades

 
Consequential changes

Due to the changes to the teams dates -

April 4th - May 2nd : Championships Teams held as Butler Pairs - new start time of 7pm from April 11

May 9th - May 23th : changes to Thursday Winter Pairs

May 30th - Jun 13th : changed to Thursday Butler Pairs

 
Hamilton Bridge Match Committee