The Water Mill Bridge Club held its 15th annual Lipetz-Brennan Silver Bowl Championship bridge game on Thursday, October 11th. Last year’s winners Ed Brennan, formally of Bridgehampton and Geoff O’Connor of Southampton, again won the silver bowl. The game is held in honor of Maire Lipetz, who was a champion bridge instructor and player for…
DetailsA quick note to recognize Melih Ozdil, a very good friend of the Water Mill Bridge Club who is a writer, professional bridge player and teacher. Melih has written a fabulous new bridge book on Competitive Bidding which has been recognized in Bridge World magazine as the best new publication in September 2018. We have…
DetailsLynne Koeppel anf Joe Byrnes took the Silver Bowl for 2018 You can see the writeup in the Southampton Press here: http://www.27east.com/my-community/photo.cfm/10712/Water-Mill
DetailsThe Water Mill Bridge Club held a fund-raising event on Wednesday, June 20th for the benefit of the Alzheimer’s Association. Six teams of four to six players each raised approximately $8,441 for research for the cure of this dreaded disease. The day began with breakfast at 9 a.m., game at 10. After 24 boards lunch…
DetailsIn April our club participated in a World Wide Bridge Contest event. Geoff O’Connor and Mark Blanchard placed fifth among 550+ pairs playing throughout the world, all contestants playing the same boards at the same time. This game was sponsored by ECATS BRIDGE in the U.K. The WMBC will be participating in another World Wide…
DetailsAlthough the WMBC has been closed for the winter months we have still been busy teaching bridge. Last week Kim Spolarich, fifth grade teacher at the Sag Harbor elementary school, invited Director/teacher Sue Birdsall and me to teach bridge during her math classes. We were working with 20 ten year old children who were so…
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