Promoting Bridge @ "The Square"

Bridge @ Chartwell Square
9 members from the club gave a morning and afternoon demonstration of the game at Chartwell Square ahead of this years bridge lessons. Thanks to the morning players Stephen Weir,Janice Wilton,Stephen Baptist and Sonya Roberts and to the afternoon players Mark Thomson,Karen Harper,Shaun Hewitt and Trini Lin.
The day was organised and managed by Karen Thomson who was able to take a number of names and emails of people keen to learn. Lindsay Reid called by to give his support.
A good day all round.

Didn't we do well !

Have you noticed the "shortage" of Open players & Grand Masters around the Club this last week ?
If you did and wondered where were they had gone the simple answer is the Gold Coast in Queensland playing bridge at the week long Gold Coast Congress. Results in the pairs were hard to come by but in the Teams members of the Club have done very well competing in a field of 212 Teams - you can read about it on this page from NZ Bridge Site

Click here to read about how NZers placed in the Teams

The NZ Bridge site doesn't mention all those from the Club playing - numerous other members are at the Congress and you can check their progress here

Alternatively Click here to see all the action at the Gold Coast Congress

Phone Numbers in the emailed Newsletter

Oops - sorry but some of the numbers in the latest Newsletter emailed last weekend were incorrect due to a publishing error. The numbers in the Newsletter on this web site and those in the printed copies at Club are correct so should you have updated your book with those numbers please re-check them to confirm you have the correct numbers. Once again - sorry

Car Parking Helpers

Help please !Car parking is a big contributor to the Club's funds and the next few months with Super Rugby and the Chiefs playing at home is the time when we make most of that income
We need help for a couple of hours on the nights the Chiefs play to assist with car parking for the spectators.The first night is Friday 15 February from around 5pm till 7pm.

If you can spare the time or need to know more the "sign on" sheet and details are on the notice board in the club rooms. Alternatively get in touch with Bruce Cresswell on the number in the Programme Book

2019 Twits coming to you !


TWITS are coming......

Hamilton hosts the 3rd year of the Waikato Bays social bridge competition with the rather unusual name of TWITs - The Waikato Inter-club Teams. The competition while competitive is aimed more at the social level though there will be prizes at the end of the event

♥  Competitions for Open, Intermediate, Junior & Novice Teams

♦  $5pp table money

♠  Wine & cheese supper provided

♣  4th Friday of each month starting on March 23

♥  Runs for 6 months - March to August

♦  Teams are a minimum of 4 players but can have unlimited subs

♠  Team Captain is committed to fielding a team each month

♣  Hosted at the Hamilton Bridge Club

♥  Teams from Hamilton, Cambridge, Morrinsville, Te Aroha, etc.

♦  6.45pm for 7.00pm start

To enter your Team - click here

Hamilton Sevens

Last weekend on Saturday and Sunday Hamilton hosted the New Zealand round of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens at the FMG Stadium. Our Club uses car parking at the Sevens and other games at FMG as a fund raiser for the Club. This year the Sevens car parking brought in excess of $3000 to the Club funds.
Organising the parking for the first time was Bruce Cresswell who has taken the job over from Nigel G the previous leader of the team running the parking on the day. Bruce started out with the biggest event of the year but had excellent support making the two day event a successful fund raiser.....
Bruce C and the Police....


 

 

 

 

 

 

( click on the picture to see more photos )

Thanks also to Nigel, Margaret, Richard, Don, Mary, Roger, Sonya, Michael, Cath, Marilyn, Cathy, Karen along with reserves Phil & Ann. We were so well served we even sent some Volunteers home but you can be assured of our appreciation for all the time volunteered.

Special Trophies for 2018

The Hamilton Club awards a number of trophies each year based on performance of a player or a pair across the entire bridge year rather than just a single event.
The Mike Barton Trophy is awarded to the most promising player or pairs ( excluding Grand Masters ) based on their increase in Rating Points over the Hamilton Club bridge year.
This year the Trophy was awarded to Jo Millington & Mike Everard
The Audrey Dixon Cup for the most improved Junior player is also calculated on rating points was awarded to Shaun Hewitt. Megan Jolly was in a very creditable second place a very small number of points behind Shaun

Winner of the Audrey Dixon Cup - Shaun Hewitt with very close runner up Megan Jolly

Mike Barton Trophy Winners - Jo Millington & Mike Everard

Bridge Zone Contact Details

The Bridge Zone has a new email address. Need to contact them : bridgezoneshow@gmail.com

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Barry & Mereana recording BRIDGE ZONE
The hosts of THE BRIDGE ZONE, Barry and Mereana in the Hamilton studio of FreeFM89 recording the latest episode

Link to previous BRIDGE ZONE's

The first episode of THE BRIDGE ZONE was broadcast back in early July - did you listen back then or would you like to listen to them again ?

We've made it easy for you to find the old episodes and re-listen to your hearts content !

Just click Bridge Zone on the left hand side bar and you will be able select and listen to any of the previously recorded episodes

Enjoy......

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