The Buffett Cup is a Contract bridge trophy which is awarded biennially in an event between teams from Europe and the United States.
The tournament is modeled on the Ryder Cup golf competition and is held in the week preceding the golf event at a nearby location. The competition was first held in 2006 and is named after its sponsor, American businessman Warren Buffett. Teams are selected by invitation and must contain at least two female players. The competition format is a mixture of teams of four, pairs and individual sessions with point-a-board scoring throughout.
The tournament was scheduled to be held in Monaco in 2014, but was cancelled owing to disagreement within the USA side as to how members of its team were chosen.
The Buffett Cup was resumed in 2019 in Haikou, China. Besides the Europe and USA teams, the China team is also invited for the first time to the Buffett Cup.
Results
Summary
By Year
2006 Dublin, Ireland
USA won by 23.
| { class="wikitable"
| + Europe |
| England |
| Germany |
| Italy |
| Italy |
| England |
| England |
| Ireland |
| Norway |
| Norway |
| Netherlands |
| Ireland |
| Netherlands |
| Germany |
|
|}
2008 Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Europe won 205.5-172.5.
| { class="wikitable"
| + Europe |
| England |
| Germany |
| France |
| France |
| Norway |
| Ireland |
| Norway |
| Poland |
| Norway |
| Ireland |
| Netherlands |
| Poland |
| Norway |
|
|}
2010 Cardiff, Wales
USA won 109-89.
| { class="wikitable"
| + Europe |
| England |
| Germany |
| Norway |
| Italy |
| Italy |
| England |
| England |
| Norway |
| Norway |
| Italy |
| Norway |
| Italy |
| Germany |
|
|}
2012 Omaha, Nebraska
USA won 107-103.
| { class="wikitable"
| + Europe |
| Ireland |
| France |
| France |
| England |
| Monaco |
| England |
| Ireland |
| Bulgaria |
| Monaco |
| England |
| Bulgaria |
|
| + USA |
| Donna Compton (NPC) |
| David Berkowitz |
| Curtis Cheek |
| Joe Grue |
| Bob Hamman |
| John Hurd |
| Marc Jacobus |
| Justin Lall |
| Jill Levin |
| Brad Moss |
| Alan Sontag |
|}
2019 Haikou, Hainan Province, China
(1st) USA - 972.3; (2nd) Europe - 967.7; (3rd) China - 953
| { class="wikitable"
| + China |
| Jianjian Wang (NPC) |
| Jianming Dai |
| Lixin Yang |
| Chuancheng Ju |
| Zhengjun Shi |
| Meng Kang |
| Xiaojing Wang |
| Wenfei Wang |
| Qi Shen |
|
| + Europe |
| England |
| England |
| England |
| England |
| Sweden |
| England |
| Portugal |
| Netherlands |
| Netherlands |
|
| + USA |
| Peggy Kaplan (NPC) |
| Bob Hamman |
| Peter Weichsel |
| Bart Bramley |
| Kit Woolsey |
| Oren Kriegel |
| Ron Smith |
| Jill Meyers |
| Sylvia Shi |
|}
