Our new season started on Tuesday 10th September 2024. We will meet each Tuesday until early May (except 24th and 31st Dec). Unless notified, we will meet each week in the New Golf Club, Gibson Place, St. Andrews

Registration is from 6:20pm, and play will start by 6:45pm

Visitors are always welcome and we look forward to welcoming existing members and prospective new members.

Tuesday 14th January 2025 was the final round of the Lees Trophy 2025 which also constitutes the Club Pairs Championship.

Congratulations to Cathy Ferguson & Bob McKinnon for winning a close-fought competition.
The runners-up were George Watson and Marc Shearer.

The detailed results are available here

Congratulations to St Andrews Member Jack Shearer who won the Russell French Teams playing in an U31s team at Dundee Bridge Club on Sunday 18th January 2025

The Russell French is a district invitational event with teams invited from most of the clubs in the Central District of the SBU. The St Andrews team finished 5th.

The detailed results are available here.​​​

Congratulations to the following members for their recent Master Point promotions

Please note that we only publish promotions for members who have St Andrews as their Home Club

The New Melville Christmas Congress took place on 28-29 December 2024

Congratulations to St Andrews members Marc Shearer, Jack Shearer, Michèle Grainger and Peter Thommeny who came 4th equal in the Teams event and won the prize for the Best Silver-ranked Team

Congratulations also to Cathy Ferguson and Bob McKinnon who came 6th in the Teams event

Full details are available here

This Scottish Ranked Pairs took place in Dundee, Edinburgh and Online on 1st December 2024. This gives pairs a chance to play in a competition with other players of a similar rank. There were six events with several St Andrews members taking part.

Huge congratulations to Cathy Ferguson and Bob McKinnon who were runners-up in the Arthur Trophy for Grand Masters. As you would expect this was an exceptionally strong field.

Congratulations also to Fiona Lewis and Bill Hamilton who were third in the Jesner Trophy for Masters, Star Masters and Senior Masters.

And congratulations to Alan McCrae (playing with Iain Mitchell) who was runner-up in the Kennedy Trophy for Novices and Club Masters.

Full results are available here

Congratulations to our President George Watson who was recently promoted to the rank of Regional Master (Silver Category)

Congratulations to St Andrews member Bob McKinnon who won the 2nd National Online Swiss Pairs tournament of the year with his partner Ian Patrick in a strong field on RealBridge on Sunday 10th November

Also well done to Michèle Grainger and Marc Shearer who picked up the prize for the best Silver-ranked Pair finishing 8th. Other members playing included Peter Thommeny finishing 9th and Cathy Ferguson finishing 13th

Full details are available here

The Highland District Congress took place in Aviemore on 1-3 November 2024

Several St Andrews members were taking part. Howard Greenwell, Jack Shearer and Marc Shearer qualified for the Pairs Final, while Howard Greenwell, Sheila Blair, Cathy Ferguson, Bob McKinnon, George Watson, Peter Thommeny, Jack Shearer and Marc Shearer qualified for the Teams Final

George, Peter, Jack & Marc finished as Runners-Up in the Teams Event while Howard and his partner shared the top spot in the Bidding Competition

Full details are available here

The Newtonmore Congress took place on 26-27 October 2024

Congratulations to St Andrews members Cathy Ferguson and Bob McKinnon who came 6th in the Pairs event and won the Teams Event

Full details are available here

The first Central District event of the year took place on Saturday 12th October in Dundee Bridge Club

Congratulations to the team comprising 3 St Andrews members, Cathy Ferguson, Bob McKinnon and Bob Hunter who, playing with Alison Carmichael, won the trophy!

More details of this and the full Central District events calendar are available on the Central District web site

The Scottish Bridge Union (SBU) calendar of national events for 2024/25 is now available on the SBU web site

The SBU is again running several online national tournaments for 2024/25, the next of which is a Swiss Pairs tournament taking place on Sunday 27th October on RealBridge.

You can see the Commentary from the SBU Simultaneous Pairs held on the 15th October 2024 by clicking here. The results on ECATS, can be found here.

The annual Central District Congress took place on the weekend of 16-18 August 2024 at the Park Hotel in Montrose. Although there are a lot of very good players in attendance, the congress is always extremely friendly and relaxed.

There were 6 pairs involving St Andrews Bridge Club attending. Our youngest pair, Catherine Grainger and Jack Shearer won the 2-board knockout competition.

Cathy Ferguson playing with Anne Perkins came third in the main final of the Congress Pairs and also came fourth in the main final of the Congress Teams with Bob McKinnon and Peter Hodgson.

Sheila Blair and Howard Greenwell qualified for the main final of the Congress Pairs and also for the main final of the Congress Teams with Marion Cadogan and Peter Thommeny. Michèle Grainger and Marc Shearer won the consolation final of the Congress Pairs.

Full results are available here

The SBU is organising a series of events to promote the game of Bridge and to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. See more details here.

There is a Hairy Coo Swiss Teams Tournament in Birnam Arts, Dunkeld on Sunday 15th September. See here for details.

Also Dundee Bridge Club is organising the following events in support of the festival. Email dundeefestivalofbridge@gmail.com for more information.

Saturday 7th September – Bridge marathon/Open day
Dundde Bridge Club start 10:00

Tuesday 10th September - Play with a more experienced player
Dundee Bridge Club start 19:00 £5 entry - Register in advance

Thursday 12th September – Non-competitive/Relaxed bridge with tea/coffee and cakes
Dundee Bridge Club start 13:45 £20 per table of 4 - Tickets available to purchase in advance

Saturday 14th September - Open Swiss Pairs with afternoon tea
Dundee Bridge Club start 14:00 £15 entry - Tickets available to purchase in advance

In preparation for the new season, news articles from the 2023/24 season have been archived

They may be viewed in the  News Archive 2023/24

When the Bridgemates are being used, every effort will be made to publish the results of Tuesday Night Bridge by 11pm. Where paper scoring is being used, every effort will be made to publish the results by 9am the next day, Wednesday.

If there will be a delay in the publication, an announcement will be placed on the home page of the web site.