Many congratulations to St Andrews member Michael Kennedy who recently came 2nd with his partner Kevin Ren in the National Mens Pairs competition

This was a fantastic result in a very high-quality field. Full results are available here

The Strathpeffer Congress is run by Dingwall Bridge Club in the Ben Wyvis Hotel in StrathPeffer

It is a great congress and attracts a lot of the best players. However space is limited and it sells out very quickly!

Congratulations to St Andrews player Bob McKinnon who won the Main Congress Pairs and Cathy Ferguson who came 7th. Cathy and Bob also won the Pre-Congress Mixed Teams and finished 3rd in the Main Congress Teams. Not a bad weekend! Full results are available here

As well as being an ordinary club night, Tuesday 19th March was our heat of the Easter Pairs

In this event the hands we played are the same as other clubs in Scotland and all the results are combined. Well done to Lifang Lamb & Bill Hamilton for finishing 12th nationally out of 160 pairs and to Catherine Grainger & Jack Shearer for finishing 20th

A commentary on the hands played is available here. The combined results for the evening are available here. You can see how our St Andrews pairs performed nationally here. Click the NS column heading to see the EW pairs.

The Oban Congress takes place in early March each year. This year 5 St Andrews members took part in a field of 44 pairs / 22 teams - Sheila Blair (playing with Kirsty Hassall), Michèle Grainger, Catherine Grainger, Marc Shearer & Jack Shearer.

All 3 pairs made it through to the main Pairs final with Michèle & Marc finishing 3rd, Catherine & Jack finishing 6th and Sheila finishing 10th.

Michèle, Catherine, Marc & Jack finished 7th in the teams final with Sheila 6th in the consolation final.

Full results are available here. Oban is a lovely, friendly congress in a beautiful part of Scotland. We would highly recommend it if you haven't tried bridge congresses before.

The SBU Congress took place in Peebles Hydro on the 6th-8th March. This is the main SBU Congress of the year and 60 pairs and 31 teams were taking part. The congress was hugely enjoyable if a trifle tiring! Of particular note was the Speedball Pairs late on Saturday night. This was a normal duplicate played at 3 minutes per board. Lots of hectic fun!

Four St Andrews pairs were competing - Marion Cadogan & Sheila Blair, Fiona Lewis & Bill Hamilton, Michèle Grainger & Peter Thommeny and Marc & Jack Shearer. Michèle & Peter came 15th in the Pairs Qualifying, narrowly missing out on the Main Final. They were joined in the Subsidiary Final by Marc & Jack who finished joint runners-up.

Congratulations to Cathy Ferguson and Bob McKinnon who came 2nd in the Central District Pairs on Saturday 24th February in Dundee Bridge Club

Also well done Michèle Grainger and Peter Thommeny who finished 6th and Lifang Lamb and Bill Hamilton who finished 9th

The full results are available here

Congratulations to Cathy Ferguson and Bob McKinnon who won the Congress Pairs event at the Newtonmore Congress on the 14-16 February 2024 in a field of 46 pairs

They also came 3rd in the Congress Teams event playing with Clare and Allan Whiteford

Results for the pairs final are available here and results for the teams final are available here

The Winter Fours is an unusual tournament which this year took place over 3 days from 2-4 February in Edinburgh. Teams played 148 boards over the course of the weekend. Many of the best teams in Scotland were taking part.

Teams play head-to-head matches dropping into a pool when beaten twice. The last 3 teams then played off for the trophy. The other teams played either in the Subsidiary Final or the Consolation Final (joined by other teams).

A team of St Andrews members Michèle Grainger, Peter Thommeny, Jack Shearer and Marc Shearer finished 4th in the Subsidiary Final (7th overall). Another team involved St Andrews members Cathy Ferguson and Bob McKinnon. More details are available here.

Congratulations to Jack Shearer on his recent promotion to Regional Master

This is a great achievement just 2 years after he learnt to play bridge

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

Congratulations to the St Andrews team of Marion Cadogan, Peter Thommeny, Michèle Grainger and Marc Shearer who finished 6th and were the Top Silver-ranked Team in the event.

Congratulations also to Cathy Ferguson and Bob McKinnon whose team finished 8th.

The full results are available here.

Tuesday 16th January 2024 was the final round of the Lees Trophy 2024 which also constitutes the Club Pairs Championship.

Congratulations to Sylvia Peterson & Douglas Foster for winning a close-fought competition.
The runners-up were Lesley Galloway and Pat Duncan.

The detailed results are available here

Congratulations to St Andrews member Bob McKinnon who with his partner Ian Patrick finished 6th in the SBU National Online Swiss Pairs on Sunday 14th January in a strong field with many competitors from England, N Ireland and Sweden.

Also congratulations to Jack Shearer and Peter Thommeny who finished 9th and were the Top Silver Pair in the event.

And congratulations to Sheila Blair who with her partner Kirsty Hassall were the Top Bronze Pair.

The detailed results are available here

Congratulations to St Andrews members Jack Shearer, Marc Shearer, Michèle Grainger and Peter Thommeny who came third in the SBU National Online Swiss Teams Tournament on Sunday 10th December

They were also the top Silver Ranked Team in the tournament

The detailed results are available here

Congratulations to Catherine Grainger on her recent promotion to Local Master

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

The Highland District congress is one of the highlights of the Scottish Bridge year. This year it took place on the weekend of the 10-12 November in the Coylumbridge Hotel, Aviemore. 8 members of St Andrews Bridge Club were in attendance.

Cathy Ferguson and Bob McKinnon won the Pairs Qualifying event and were then placed second in the overall Pairs Final. 

Sheila Blair qualified for the Pairs Final with her partner Kirsty Hassall. They also qualified for the Teams Final with Howard Greenwell and Sandy Greenhill.

Congratulations to St Andrews member Sheila Blair who with her partner Kirsty Hassall won the prize as the top Bronze Pair in the SBU Grand Prix Swiss Pairs on Saturday 4th November

The detailed results are available here

Huge congratulations to St Andrews members Sheila Blair and Howard Greenwell who came fourth in the the SBU Senior National Pairs (Diamond Trophy) on the 15th October 2023

This was a fantastic result in a very strong field of 52 pairs

The detailed results are available here

Congratulations to St Andrews members Michèle Grainger and Peter Thommeny who were runners-up in the the Robertson Salver in Dundee Bridge Club on the 30th September 2023. Their team-mates were Matthew Robb and Michael Heubeck from Dundee

The Robertson Salver is the main Teams competition for the Central District

The detailed results are available here.

Congratulations to Lifang Lamb on her recent promotion to Master

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