The Sally Young LM–1500 Pairs bridge event is held at the Summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship. It is open to all players who have earned Life Master status up to 1,500 masterpoints. The event is held at the same time as the Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (open to all Life Masters) and the Bruce LM-5000 Pairs event.
The trophy is named in honor of Sally Young (1906-1970), the first woman to achieve Life Master status in the ACBL (and #17 overall).
Winners
edit| Year | Winners | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Dick McCluer, Teresa Ozias | Kevin Perkins, Al Remer |
| 2004 | Robert Frick, Marvin Levine | Wieslaw Kalita, Marian Krasowski |
| 2005 | Edward Foran, Nicolas Hammond | Margaret Cooke, James Cooke |
| 2006 | Dan Swartzman, Rick Schoenfield | Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, Jason Bribitzer-Stull |
| 2007 | William Howard, Gregory Reichert | Matthew Dyer, Doug Anderson |
| 2008 | Mick Friedberg, Ken Llacera | Christopher Gibson, Paul Craviotto |
| 2009 | Peter Litchfield, Paul Gutterman | Steve Callaham, David Schulman |
| 2010 | William Anspach, Robert Block | L.C. Crowe, Joyce McMonagle |
| 2011 | Andrew Jeng, Richard Jeng | Michael Bodell, Belinda Gu |
| 2012 | Gregory Gorshkov, Neil Jaffe | Michael Gladfelter, Jane Gladfelter |
| 2013 | Doug Fjare, Alan Hierseman | Murat Berk, Peter van Zijl |
| 2014 | Douglas Grant, Charles Riffle | Sherman Gao, Andrew Collins |
| 2015 | Gregory Thorpe, Steve Hirsch | Bogumil Knypinski, Pawel Hanus |
| 2016 | Martha Welte, John Welte | Tsao-Tung Tsai, Ping Hu |
| From 2017 onward, the masterpoint limited was raised to 2500 masterpoints | ||
| 2017 | Tsao-Tung Tsai, Luen-Jyh Luo | Frank Swan, Jay Lucas |
| 2018 | Eric Gettleman, Paul Holmes | Jacob Freeman, Martin Zhao |
| 2019 | Ernie Schuler, Thomas Peters | Jacek Leznicki, Piotr Olszewski |
Sources
edit"ACBL - NABC Winners". acbl.com. ACBL. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
"ACBL - NABC Winners: Young Life Master Pairs (0-2500)". acbl.com. ACBL. Retrieved 21 Feb 2018.
List of previous winners, Page 5 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 81–1, July 24, 2009
2009 winners, Page 1 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 81–4, July 27, 2009