Success for Whangarei players finishing in the Top 20 for their rank across NZ in 2021. Congratulations to:

Life Masters: Tania Brown - 12th, Margaret Hooson - 18th.

National Masters: Jane Stearns - 9th, Len Dent - 18th.

Provincial Masters: Richard Bland - 4th, Janice Johnson - 12th.

Local Master: Alan Pumfleet - 5th.

A wonderful Christmas party, some fun bridge, and a chance to applaud our winners this year.  Special thanks to one of our newest members, Sandy Maihi, for all her help in the kitchen.

A shared supper for the final night of Monday eve bridge saw players with a variety of themed outfits on display. Highly commended were Grant Algie for his donkey (with tail), Jerry Pauli as a Wise Man, Alan Pumfleet as Joseph in full carpenter outfit with hard hat, our stars Judy Allison, Juliet Golightly and Julie Kelsall, Angel Heather Saunders and lamb Jane Stearns.  The winner was a very beautiful Virgin Mary with her newborn - Janelle McKenzie.  Click the read more button below to see all the costumes.

Monday night players have joined "X-Club" and the deals they play are the same as many other clubs across NZ.  Their club result is given on the night, but all the clubs results are combined across the country overnight and on Tuesday morning Judith and Penny had come out on top!  Congratulations!

TOPS Summer Online Teams 2021/22 – Invitation to enter

Following the success of last year’s summer online teams, the TOPS regional committee has given approval for the event to be repeated this summer.

How it works:

Full details are in the December 2021 Newsletter which can be found under "About Us/Publications" on the main menu.  You will need to have proof of double vaccination and 14 days expired since your last vaccination to gain entry to the clubrooms. Play is possible at Red, Orange and Green.

Congratulations to two of our new players for coming 3rd out of 220 pairs playing the same boards Monday night across the whole of New Zealand. For their November series our players are not only competing in the clubrooms, but across clubs countrywide in the X-Club.  Carlene and Ange, who attended lessons this year, showed they certainly had the X-Factor with a 67.51% X-Club score.  Click here to see how our other players fared: X Club results

The winners of the Monday night Back to the Future Teams event were the "Wizards" - winning the best costume prize with their wonderful costumes. John Ward, Ruth and Roger de Bray and Colleen Fannin. See more photos via "Read more" below.

The Wiggles took out the winning bridge plaudits, Yvonne McKinnon, Judith Byrne, June Zhu and Kevin Grundy.

Listen in to some familiar voices in this recent broadcast on Radio NZ.  The club recently hosted a journalist covering how older people cope during lockdown.  Some of our Wednesday morning players feature 2 min 10 sec into this recording  Thanks to Rosalie Ross for facilitating the visit.

Congratulations to the Whangarei players featuring in the Top 20 for their rank as at 30 September 2021:

Life Master:  13 Tania Brown, 19 Margaret Hooson

National Master: 7 Jane Stearns, 17 Len Dent

Provincial Master: 4 Richard Bland, 13 Janice Johnson

Local Master: 5 Alan Pumfleet

A special shout-out to Alan who only returned to bridge this year by repeating lessons - an outstanding performance.