The Welsh Invitation Pairs 2009

The Welsh Invitation Pairs was held at St Mellons golf club on 19-20 September. This prestigious event must be the best pairs event in the UK calendar. The visiting pairs were high quality with many current World or European medallists. Read about them here.

Many thanks to all the organisers, especially Patrick, Maggie and Ken. One table was broadcast on BBO.

For the second year running a Welsh pair came out top. Many congratulations to Gary and Dafydd Jones!

The winners with Alan Screen (WBU President) and Patrick Jourdain (organiser)

Gary and Dafydd with the beautiful trophy donated by Janet de Botton

The runners-up Nick Sandqvist & Andrew McIntosh (England)

Third placed David Mossop & Gojko Zivkovic (Switzerland)

The results:

 
Victory Points
Pair No.
  R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R15
Total VPs
Rank
7
Dafydd Jones & Gary Jones
30
38
20
33
32
33
30
42
39
5
30
16
36
44
25
453
1
4
Nick Sandqvist & Andrew McIntosh
10
36
40
44
16
34
24
42
50
23
26
33
14
32
19
443
2
8
David Mossop & Gojko Zivkovic
36
46
20
23
41
20
36
30
0
50
20
25
25
31
16
419
3
13
Patrick Shields & Dan McIntosh
31
43
30
34
27
30
20
0
11
25
34
23
32
41
31
412
4
1
David Liggat & Roy Bennett
25
50
30
37
21
12
30
16
19
27
23
26
38
20
34
408
5
9
Tim Rees & Filip Kurbalija
39
14
31
17
22
28
26
34
15
29
49
25
34
9
29
401
6
6
Artur Malinowski & Tony Forrester
40
21
30
28
23
16
33
10
25
45
19
33
20
30
21
394
7
5
Pierre Franceschetti & Christophe Grossart
25
12
38
36
26
38
34
8
25
21
43
27
4
19
31
387
8
11
Espen Erichsen & Norman Selway
30
4
10
22
23
22
16
50
31
21
26
34
42
27
22
380
9
2
Paul Gagne & Diana Harris
11
45
20
27
29
28
17
31
37
31
7
27
8
18
25
361
10
16
Mike Best & Mark Roderick
25
5
20
6
24
34
20
20
35
19
24
32
18
35
43
360
11
10
Patrick Jourdain & Mike Hirst
20
25
12
16
9
16
40
25
13
31
31
24
16
23
40
341
12
3
David Greenwood & Rex Anderson
14
25
30
19
28
22
26
8
39
29
16
17
12
35
19
339
13
15
Mike Baker & Roger Penton
20
29
17
13
34
48
14
25
11
25
1
23
46
6
7
319
14
14
Peter Goodman & Gay Keaveney
25
7
33
31
27
17
24
19
24
0
27
17
30
15
10
306
15
12
Mike Tedd & John Salisbury
19
0
19
14
18
2
10
40
26
19
24
18
25
15
28
277
16

Detailed scoresheets, hands and travellers can be found for the next week or two on the Cardiff Bridge Club site. Thank you, Ken!