The Mollymook Bridge Club has its beginnings in October 1982, when Ruth and Eugene Lumbers started a private bridge club. They played two times a week, with around six tables being played weekly.  During those years many of our members also played at Nowra and Batemans Bay and Ruth was a well-respected player at all three clubs. Ruth and Eugene both died due to a car crash in December of 1989.  To memorialize Ruth and Eugene’s critical influence on the establishment of duplicate bridge in the region, it was proposed to establish an annual teams competition between Nowra, Bateman’s Bay, Moruya and Mollymook - with each club fielding four teams. Moruya were not able to commit to providing four teams, so it was determined that Batemans and Moruya would provide joint teams, under the auspice of Batemans Bay.  The first Lumbers Trophy event was held in 1991, and was won by Mollymook.  Over time all clubs found it problematic to field multiple teams, and around 2014 the event was changed to a pairs event.  Shortly thereafter, with the change of format from a teams event,  Nowra elected to pull out of the competition, and the event thereafter was hosted alternately between Batemans Bay and Mollymook.  In 2023 Nowra returned to the competition and Moruya competed in their own right restoring the event to a four club event.