Members may have noticed the continuing problems with the floor covering in our clubhouse. Our committee have spent long hours attempting and substantial club finances remedying the issue. Below is a summary provided by our President on past efforts and the current status of this problem. 

2019:

Congratulations to our recently promoted members Lynn Mooney and Alison Maberly Smith (Local Masters). And we welcome four new members to our vibrant club. For information about ABF ranks, click here. Also, check out our club’s top 50 most improved players (as of 31 May 2025). 

The Australian Bridge Federation (ABF) has raised annual membership fees to $26.60 per person for 2026, and this will rise again to $29.90 in 2027. The reasoning for the increases can be found here. The NSW Bridge Association also charges $20 per member annually. 

Although these fees together exceed GLBC's current full membership cost of $40p.a., we are grateful to our committee in deciding to not raise our membership fees at this stage. 

Congratulations to all our Novice players who entered the recent Australia-Wide competition. Further to our article below, the national results are now finalised, and our club's scores are attached. 

Special mention goes to Gary and Denise Marr who placed 1st locally and 8th nationally with a score of 68.5. Well done!

On Thursday 29 May 2025, GLBC took part in the annual Australia-Wide Novice Pairs Competition — a national bridge event run by Australian Bridge Magazine for novice bridge players (holding fewer than 100 masterpoints).

Unfortunately, due to a technical error, the final round of this year's GNOT qualifier had to go 'old school' with pen and paper. The final outcome is below. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to our director Sylvia for staying back to complete the results by hand. Thanks also to the substitutes who enabled the last round to go ahead following a very harrowing week for some of our members and the prior commitments of others.

Round 3 of our GNOT is confirmed for Wednesday 28 May 2025. 

Due to multiple clashes with the previously advised date of 11 June 2025, the date of the 3rd round of this year's GNOTs reverts to the date reserved in the calendar for a GNOT round, i.e. 28-May-25.

For further information, contact Sylvia on Sunday ph: 0431 066 388.

On Sunday 18 May 2025, Great Lakes Bridge Club (GLBC) hosted this year's regional final of the NSW Country Teams. Following a full day's hard-fought competition, GLBC-2 had a clear win with Port-2's team placing second, both with 5 wins out of 8 matches. Pictured from left are: GLBC's Fran and Wayne Carroll, Pauline Erby and Gil Clarke; Port Macquarie-Hastings' Chris Sinclair, (Bronwyn Boehm, local sub) Yvonne Breakwell and Denise Strain. 

Full results.  

Congratulations to our recently promoted members listed below, and welcome to our newest members: DiShanks and Julia Sykes 

The four promotions are Mika Betten (Graduate Master), Deb Debnam (Club Master), Chris Begg (Regional Master and Bronwyn Boehm (Bronze Life Master). 

This week we celebrated with one of our recent novices, Les Palmer, to wish him a very happy 95th birthday. Les started lessons only a few years ago and has been an eager player since. But a possibly bigger claim to fame, Les grows good gramma (the pumpkin, not a grandmother or bad scribing). One of our members recounts the day Les delivered a beauty to her on his 1000cc Yamaha motorcycle, which he also rides to bridge.