| Dounby Bridge Club |
 Welcome to the Dounby Bridge Club website. We take our bridge seriously but not too seriously and aim always to be a friendly and welcoming Club.
The Club runs two competitions: on Tuesdays, Duplicate Bridge which has a planned season, roughly from October to April; and on Fridays, Individual Rubber Bridge where players rotate through six partnerships in an evening. For the latter, we aim to play pretty regularly throughout most of the year, but numbers can be thin in the summer so please check the Calendar on this website. For more information please use the form on the Contact Us page under the Information menu tab.
Bridge players are welcome, as individuals on Fridays or in pairs on Tuesdays. We often start at 6:45pm so if not booked in please come soon after 6:30pm. Members £3, Non-Members £4.
Some members also play at Orkney Bridge Club in Kirkwall. Click on the card icons at the top left and top right of the page to open their website in a new window.
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| 2025-2026 Duplicate Pairs Winners |
The 2025-2026 Duplicate Pairs season ended on 7 April 2026. It had been a very close run thing with two pairs vying for top spot right down to the wire. In the end it was Dave Higgins & Sandy McConnachie who finished with a flourish to win the trophy with a score of 633.75 for their top ten results. The runners up were Graham Lyon & Roger Davies with 628.26.
For the overall competition scores are capped at 70% to count for any one session but for the High Score trophy we look back at actual scores. Prior to the final session the same two pairs had both had one score of 77.5% as their highest single session score but Dave Higgins & Sandy McConnachie scored another 77.5% on the final evening, giving them also the High Score Trophy.
  Well done to the winners and runners up and thank you to all the players who have supported the Duplicate Pairs competition during the 2025-2026 season. We hope to welcome you back for the 2026-2027 season which will start on the first Tuesday in October.
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| Next Bridge at Dounby |
On Tuesday, 31 March, there will be the penultimate session this season of Duplicate Pairs Bridge; and on Friday 3 April the usual Individual Rubber Bridge (but please watch this page in case of cancellation of the Friday event!).
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| End of 2025-2026 Duplicate Pairs Competition |
Please note that the 2025-2026 Duplicate Pairs Competition will end on Tuesday, 7 April 2026.
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| New Season for Individual Rubber Bridge |
The 2026 Individual Rubber Bridge season began on 16 January 2026 having been delayed for a week due to the bad weather conditions that hit Orkney. The winner from 2024 (Roger Davies) and the winner from 2025 (Graham Lyon) made their intentions for the 2026 competition quite clear by taking the top and second places for the first evening. The competition is based on the best ten results over the calendar year and it is far to early to see how things are going to develop but it is a start.
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| 2025 Individual Rubber Bridge Competition Concludes |
The 2025 Individual Rubber Bridge competition came to a close on Friday, 19 December. The competition result is based on the best ten results scored throughout the calendar year.
For the first four months of the year, the lead was held mostly by Clinton Rendall. He had a head start on Graham Lyon who had missed some early Friday sessions so it took a while for Graham to record ten results but by 2 May he had achieved the necessary ten results and had caught up with Clinton. There was then a long break over the summer when no bridge was played but for the rest of the year Graham managed to maintain and increase his lead over Clinton. The final outcome was a win for Graham with 51310 points for his best ten results, with Clinton the runner up with 45370 points. Well done guys!
In parallel with the main competition there is a challenge to achieve the highest single score for any session. Again it was Graham and Clinton who were in the running and in the end they shared the High Score award for their scores of 6560.
 
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