From the Tauranga boat club.....

The starting gun has fired and the race is underway ! 

Tauranga has found its foils and is at the 54.23% mark with Cambridge Dragging its anchor and trailing slightly behind at the 51.19% Mark.

A slight change to the way this is calculated this year.  We are now using the X Club handicap system which takes into account the strength of the partnership, the opposition and the field. We average the handicap scores for each club and use that as the total for the club.

 On Sunday Beth Kingsley and Josie van Weerd won our Intermediate tournament. Many congratulations to them. A 70 percent score in the afternoon clinched the win for them!

It was lovely to see 12 tables of Junior members and their partners on Sunday afternoon.

We played Bringo and answered Clare's bridge questions for fun spot prizes.

Just an amendment to Anne's post:

Please enter on our Cambridge website (not NZB) on the Homepage under Upcoming Events. Click on Junior Restricted Fun Afternoon and enter your pair.

Come along and enjoy the fun, Liz

Sunday 1pm 26 July is our fun junior restricted afternoon.

A junior player can enter with another junior or intermediate or open player.  if you are an intermediate or Open player this is a chance for you to support our junior members.

This is open to members of our neighbouring clubs also and there is no charge to enter. 

Enter online at the NZ bridge website or contact Sue Mckenzie our tournament secretary.

Can one Cambridge member of each pair bring a plate for afternoon tea please.

Hope to see you there.

Members will have received an email today recommending we all get used to playing on-line at BBO (BridgeBase Online). Additional full instruction on what it's all about can be found on the Ashburton website .. thanks to Mary Buckland and others.

A fun series with 10 teams taking part, including two teams from our neighbouring clubs.

The winners though were a Cambridge team the Queens! Well done to them. Great dressing up too!

This afternoon saw the annual Fairlands battle contested between Te Awamutu and Cambridge. The new Club Captain for Te Awamutu, Debz Morris, had done a grand job of rounding up the troops. With 10 pairs from each club in a tournament that has been running since 1988, tensions were high. Actually the mood was most convivial and our visitors were just lovely to play against. 

Its time for our annual fun bridge in the gardens. We are very fortunate to be going to Sue Aitkens again for another fabulous afternoon of bridge. A beautiful venue with mature trees for shade. 248B Tauwhare road