Please note that the Individual Rubber Bridge sessions for Friday, 5 September and Friday, 12 September have been cancelled due to holiday absences but will go ahead as normal on Friday, 19 September and Friday, 26 September.

We hope to restart Duplicate Pairs sessions on Tuesday, 7 October. New pairs very welcome.

The Duplicate Pairs 2025-26 competition was due to start on 7 October but owing to a technical hitch that session turned into a friendly bridge evening.  The competition start date has therefore changed to 14 October.  The competition will run through to the last Tuesday in April 2026 with a break over the Christmas and New Period.

The 2025-26 Dounby Duplicate Pairs competition will commence on Tuesday 7 October 2025 and will run through until Tuesday 28 April 2026, with a break over the Christmas and New Year period.  Reservations are now open so if you intend to play in October, please make your bookings in the usual way via the website.  If at all possible, please do the full month bookings together in advance so that we can keep a check on numbers.

Please note that there will be no Friday Individual Rubber Bridge sessions on 30 May, 6 June or 13 June.  The plan is to restart on 20 June provided that sufficient players are booked in.

The 2025 Individual Rubber Bridge competition has been running since January and we are now into the latter stages of the competition which ends on 19 December.  Graham Lyon currently leads with a score of 47300 points for his ten best results, with Clinton Rendall lying second on 42820 points and Iso Tipler lying third on 39880 points.  Although Graham has a very good lead at the moment and will be hard to catch it is still possible and for the minor placings to change.

With so many of our merry band of Friday Individual Rubber Bridge players unavailable for one reason or another, over the next few weeks, Dounby Bridge Club is extending its break up to and including the end of July 2025.  Towards the end of July we will review the situation in the hopes of being able to recommence Friday play during August.  Apologies for any disappointment or inconvenience this may cause.

The 2024-25 Duplicate Pairs competition concluded on Tuesday, 15 April although it has to be said that the winners became unreachable some considerable time ago.  Congratulations to Dave Higgins & Sandy McConnachie who won with an average of 68.33 for their best 10 results and also achieved the High Score award for the best single session result of 82.50.  Runners up in the competition were Iso & Malcolm Tipler with an average of 62.43.
 

Duplicate Pairs is now taking a summer break and the 2025-26 season will start on the first Tuesday in October. There may be some new pairings next season and we hope that the eventual winners will be given a tougher task as we are expecting to have some new/additional pairings taking part.  The more pairs there are the less extreme the scores are likely to be and the fiercer the competition (or so we hope!!)
 

Individual Rubber Bridge will continue on Friday evenings throughout the year provided that there are sufficient players each week.

The AGM took place on Friday, 21 February 2025 and there was one change to the Committee.  Four of the five Committee Members had offered themselves for re-election in their previous roles and were duly elected.  Margaret Mainland stepped down as Treasurer and from the Committee and the meeting expressed its appreciation for all that she had done while on the Committee.  Roger Davies was elected to the Committee in the role of Treasurer in her place.  The full Committee is now:

Graham Lyon (Chairman)
Iso Tipler (Secretary)
Roger Davies (Treasurer)
Sheena Hay (Committee Member)
Gladys Marwick (Committee Member)