Each year Annandale Bridge Club in Newport-on-Tay invite teams from St Andrews and Arbroath Bridge clubs to an Invitational Teams Event. This year, on Thursday 26 May 2023, 9 teams including 3 from St Andrews were treated to a very friendly welcome, some challenging hands and an amazing spread of food during the tea break.

Congratulations to the St Andrews team of Jack Shearer, Marc Shearer, Peter Thommeny and Michèle Grainger who were runaway winners and well done to the other two St Andrews teams who finished 4th and 8th.

The detailed results are available here.

Congratulations to the following members for their recent Master Point promotions
 

It's great to see 3 of our younger members progressing up the ladder. And also quite a nice month for the Shearer/Grainger clan!

Details of all promotions are reported each month in Liz McGowan's SBU Monthly News.

Huge congratulations to Howard Greenwell who won the SBU National Ranked Individual Farquharson Trophy for Regional Masters on Saturday 29th April. This is a fantastic achievement!

The detailed results are available here.

Also many congratulations to Jack Shearer who was runner-up in the SBU National Ranked Individual Shenkin Trophy for Masters to 5-Star Senior Masters. A great achievement especially since Jack started learning to play bridge less than 2 years ago!

The detailed results are available here.

On Tuesday 25th April 2023 we held our annual prize-giving followed by a dinner and party bridge.

The event was well attended and started with the award of trophies and prizes for the years competitions - our first such event in 4 years!
This was followed by an excellent dinner and then Bridge Bingo which was thoroughly enjoyed by all!

Click here for a gallery of our prize-winners

Congratulations to St Andrews members Cathy Ferguson and Bob McKinnon who won the SBU Central District Pairs in Dundee Bridge Club on the 23nd April 2023

The detailed results are available here.

Congratulations to St Andrews members Michèle Grainger and Marc Shearer who won the SBU Saturday Swiss event on the 22nd April 2023

The detailed results are available here.

Club Members playing in the Scottish Online League were winners in 3 of the 6 Divisions of the League

Team Patrick with members Cathy Ferguson and Bob McKinnon won Division 3 and have been promoted to Division 2

Team Coles with member Sylvia Peterson won Division 4 and have been promoted to Division 3

Team Shearer (on their first venture into the League) with members Michèle Grainger, Peter Thommeny, George Watson, Marc Shearer, Jack Shearer and former member Donald MacKillop won Division 5 and have been promoted to Division 4

Full results for iteration 9 of the Scottish Online League are available here

Congratulations to St Andrews members Michèle Grainger and Peter Thommeny who won the Central District Pairs Semi-Finals on Sunday 19th March 2023 at Dundee Bridge Club!

St Andrews Pairs achieved a clean sweep of the top 3 positions with Cathy Ferguson and Bob McKinnon runners-up and Catherine Grainger and Jack Shearer finishing third.

Other members Sylvia Peterson, Howard Greenwell and Sheila Blair also qualified for the final on Sunday 23rd April. The detailed results are available here.

The results from the Easter Pairs event held on 21st March 2023 can now be seen on the ECATS website at Bobby Allen - Tuesday - Overall Results.   The Hand Commentary can be found by clicking the heading to this article. 

Congratulations to Catherine Grainger on her recent promotion to Club Master

Details of all promotions are reported each month in Liz McGowan's SBU Monthly News.

Congratulations to St Andrews member Andy Collins who won the SBU Sunday Teatime Individual event on the 29th January 2023 with a fantastic score of 72.69%!

We seem to have this event pretty well sewn up at the moment

The detailed results are available here.

Congratulations to the following members for their recent Master Point promotions

Details of all promotions are reported each month in Liz McGowan's SBU Monthly News.

Congratulations to St Andrews member Bill Hamilton who won the SBU Sunday Teatime Individual event on the 22nd January 2023 with a fantastic score of 72.02%!

The detailed results are available here.

Well done to the St Andrews team of Michèle Grainger, Peter Thommeny, Jack Shearer and Marc Shearer who came second in the Russell French Teams on Sunday 15th January, 2023.

The Russell French is a district invitational event with teams invited from most of the clubs in the Central District of the SBU

The detailed results are available here.​​​

Congratulations (yet again) to St Andrews members Bob McKinnon and Cathy Ferguson whose team won the Teams Event in the recent New Melville Christmas Congress on the 29th December, 2022.

The detailed results are available here.​​​

And congratulations to St Andrews members Lifang Lamb and Bill Hamilton who won the SBU Festive New Year Pairs event on the 2nd January 2023. It's nice to clock up the club's first win so early in the New Year! 

The detailed results are available here.

Congratulations to the team of Howard Greenwell, Sheila Blair, Brian Allan and Les Meade for winning the Langlands Teams event on Tuesday 13th December

They squeezed past the team of Bob McKinnon, Cathy Fergus, Joe Peterson and Andy Collins who came a close second. The Langlands Teams is contested by scratch teams drawn on the evening of the event. 

The detailed results are available here.​​​

Huge congratulations to St Andrews members Bob McKinnon and Cathy Ferguson whose team won the Teams Event in the Highland District Congress at Aviemore on Sunday 6th November

The Aviemore Congress is one of the highlights of the Scottish Bridge Year and it is great to see St Andrews members taking away the trophy! Cathy and Bob were joined by another local pair - Bob Hunter and Ron Moodie from Leven Bridge Club - in the winning team. The detailed results are available here.​​​

And well done to all the other St Andrews members taking part in the event - especially Liz Hill and Howard Greenwell who won one of the consolation pairs events.

Congratulations to St Andrews members Cathy Ferguson and Bob McKinnon whose team came second in the Edwin Berry Bowl Swiss Teams event on Sunday 25th September

The Edwin Berry Bowl is a National Scottish Swiss Teams event which attracted a very strong field this year. Cathy and Bob's team only missed out on first place by the narrowest of margins (1VP). The detailed results are available here.​​​

Congratulations to the St Andrews team of Michèle Grainger, Peter Thommeny, Marc Shearer & Jack Shearer who came second in the Clarendon Trophy on Sunday in Dundee Bridge Club

The Clarendon Trophy is an invitational teams of four tournament held at the start of each new season. This year it was won by the team of Joan Forsyth, Beryl Campbell, Brian Short & Alan Goodman ahead of a strong field from across Scotland and it provided a very interesting and enjoyable afternoon of Bridge. The detailed results are available here.