The McCutcheon awards date back to the 1970s, at which time the award was solely a recognition of “Player of the Year”, being the player who amassed the highest number of Australian masterpoints within a calendar year.
Now, the awards are presented annually to the player in each master ranking group (Gold and Silver Grand Masters are combined into a single category) winning the most masterpoints during the calendar year. Player ranking groups are determined by their master ranking at the start of the calendar year.
It is a nationwide award for all players who have a valid ABF number. For example; if your ranking is 50….. 49 players nationwide in your division (Club, Local, Regional… etc) earned more points than you have so far this year.
There are always SBC players on the McCutcheon award every year, no exception in 2024. There are our members on top 10 in multiple divisions! Congratulations to:
OVERALL
- 2nd Ella Jacob
- 4th Pauline Gumby
- 6th Warren Lazer
SILVER GRAND & OVER
- 3rd Pauline Gumby
- 4th Warren Lazer
- 8th Sophie Ashton
- 10th Giselle Mundell
GRAND MASTER
- 1st Ella Jacob
- 7th Maurits van der Vlugt
GOLD LIFE MASTER
- 6th Neil Williams
SILVER LIFE MASTER
- 5th Jake Andrew
BRONZE LIFE MASTER
- 9th Tony White
LIFE MASTER
- 10th Mary Poynten
NATIONAL MASTER
- 7th Robyn Rogers
- 10th Alan Stoneham
SILVER LOCAL
- 1st Yiwei Qi
LOCAL MASTER
- 1st Zhan Wan
- 6th Duncan Lai
NIL MASTER
- 10th Michael Zhu
