We play Duplicate Bridge every Friday morning at 09:30 upstairs in the Penang Club, George Town, Penang.

We have a range of abilities amongst our players and we encourage a friendly and respectful approach at the table for the enjoyment of all. 

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Please note that the Penang Club is a private members club. The bridge section welcomes visitors to come along and play bridge, however we must comply with the rules of the club. 

Firstly  non-members must be signed in as a guest of one of the members so please let us know if you wish to participate by giving us your name and the date you wish to play in advance. 

Secondly guests are asked to comply with the dress code for the Sunken Veranda which is smart casual. Gentlemen are asked to wear long trousers, closed shoes and a collared shirt or T-shirt.

The Penang Club toured Hong Kong between 19 and 21 November 2025, where we played our counterparts from The Hong Kong Club and USRC HK.  Both set of matches were highly entertaining and competitive.  We were very well looked after by our respective hosts.  This is annual trip, and we encourage all Penang Club players to come and join in future visits.  We also look forward to hosting our Hong Kong friends in Penang next year.
 

Congratulation to Janet and Bob - gold medal winners!

The Penang Club was honoured to host our friends from the Sarawak Club for a friendly game of bridge over the weekend of 24 and 25 October 2025, which was topped with a lovely dinner soirée full of laughter and camaraderie.  The Saturday Teams event resulted in a victory for Team Penang Club, but it was a hard-fought win over our opponents, who gave us a run for our money.

We truly look forward to developing our relationship to a new level in the future.

The 2025 Royal Lake Club Congress was held in KL on 18-19th October. The Penang Club was represented by Nikki, Adrian, Mary and Cameron in both the pairs and teams competition.  

In the pairs event, Cameron and Mary came in a very respectable 9th position (out of 58) and in the teams category, the Penang Club was undefeated out of the consolation teams (of which there were 24 teams out of 28). 

Congratulations all round.

An exciting weekend of bridge was had when a contingent of 16 players representing the Singapore Cricket Club came to Penang for our second Penang Club – SCC Inter-Port game.  A great time was had by all, both at the bridge table and at a well attended dinner following, which celebrated the SCC victory.  We all look forward to our continued friendship with our colleagues from across the Johor Straits.

The Penang Club was delighted to host the United Services Recreation Club, Hong Kong for a highly entertaining and exciting game of Bridge on 3rd May 2025.  Each club fielded 4 teams respectively.  It was an overall win for Team Penang, the matches nevertheless were highly competitive and close at times. We look forward to our continued friendship and camaraderie with members of USRC HK.

Eight members of Penang Club Bridge Section travelled to Kuching on 19th January for a two day Bridge Competition. Sarawak Club hosted the event and together with its bridge members, made Penang players feel very welcome, providing great company, good cards and super food. Chocolates replaced trophies and Jorva and Molly did Penang Club Bridge Section proud by winning the Tuesday afternoon Pairs.

We are all looking forward to more interaction with the Kuching players - both here in Penang and on their home territory.

On 21st November 2024, members of the Penang Club participated in the United Services Recreation Club (USRC) Annual open pair’s competition.  The Club fielded 12 pairs, where Cameron and Mary Cotton held their own, and took second place overall. The following day was a team game with USRC.  Each club fielded three teams and on this occasion the Penang Club took 1st, 3rd and 5th = positions. In addition the Club created ties with Club de Recreio and were invited to play at their pairs games.

Overall it was a very successful tour, both in terms of results and friendships created.

On Saturday 26th October the Penang Club hosted its first match against the Singapore Cricket Club. The day was enjoyed by all with victory to the Penang Club. Each club fielded three teams, with a Barbarians team made up of players from both clubs.

On 6th April 2024 we were delighted to see our old friends from United Services Recreation Club return to Penang for a friendly interclub match. Each club provided 3 competing teams together with a hybrid team made up from one Penang pair and one Hong Kong pair.

Although the Hong Kong team led by Mimi Wong were the highest scoring team, when the three teams on each side had their results aggregated Penang came out on top.

With Covid-19 firmly behind us, the Penang Club restarted their friendship with the United Services Recreation Club in Hong Kong. The USRC players visited Penang earlier this year. Then in November we were fortunate to create new ties with the Hong Kong Club. So for our 2023 visit to Hong Kong we were fortunate enough to play a head to head team game against the Hong Kong Club. Which Penang Club won. On day two we joined USRC for their annual open pairs competition. There was excitement all round when our hosts announced that one of the Chinese gold medalists from the recent bridge Olympiad was playing. Then on the third day we had our team game against USRC. Each club fielded three teams. USRC gained top spot with the teams from Penang coming 2nd, 3rd and 4th with USRC 5th and 6th.
We were very well looked after by our hosts and everyone had a great time.

Penang Club hosted a friendly match against Royal Lake Club on 4th November 2023.

The aggregated results from the morning and  afternoon  sessions are

Team 1 56 VPs

Team 2 86 VPs

Team 3 46 VPs

Team 4 46 VPs

Team 5 98 VPs

Team 6 28 VPs