Clive Owen

My bridge playing started in an unusual way. I had only watched my father play in matches at our home. One night his partner could not play at the very last moment. I was persuaded to play under protest having never played a single card previously. Unbelievably we won the match.

My father then started playing the odd competition with me at the Heathercroft Bridge Club in Birmingham. Shortly afterwards I started to play with a school friend at the West Midlands Bridge Club. At the time they were a newly formed club playing at a hotel. Bridge has loomed large in our family, and I have won national or county events with my father, mother, brother, wife, and son.

I have played with many excellent partners and made many good friends.

Indeed, I have won green point events admittedly some rather minor with 20 different partners. Living near the Scottish border I have also won the Scottish Grandmasters, their Winter Fours four times and numerous teams and pairs finals at Peebles.

Last updated: November 2024

2* Trophy winner 2018

Teltscher Trophy Selections: 2014 2017^ and 2021^

National Teams Congress winner: 1976

Hubert Phillips Bowl winner: 2015

Tollemache Cup winner: 2011

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Bronze Award 2023