Category: Sports

Halloween fun on the tennis courts

And the winners are Gretchen Carlos, Jeff and JoAnne Braun, Sally Ward, Susie Petrizzio

Rana Cukierski Halloween was a barrel of laughs at our Saturday social! Choosing the winners of the costume contest was difficult. We ended up with four contestants that were most creative! The social/tournament had a huge turnout as 88 members attended. John Flynn organized another fun format with 60 players. 32 women and 28 men…

PebbleCreek Lady Niners news

Lady Niners at Palm Valley

Suzanne Butler PebbleCreek Lady Niners Enjoy Play at Falcon Dunes The Lady Niners took advantage of playing the Falcon Dunes course at Luke Air Force Base on October 13. It is always special to play at Falcon Dunes and the maximum 44 spots available were filled quickly by the Lady Niners. It was a gorgeous…

PCMGA sponsors annual pizza party for grounds crew

PCMGA board members share pizza with PebbleCreek golf grounds crew.

Howie Tiger On Thursday, November 5 the PebbleCreek Men’s Golf Association held a pizza party for the golf grounds crew at the Tuscany Falls maintenance building located off Indian School Road. This is an annual event where members of the PCMGA board get a chance to meet and share some pizza with the men and…

Pro’s Corner

Low angle view of a man holding a golf club

Jason Whitehill Q. My tee shots are being pushed straight right most of the time and when I try to correct it, the ball starts left and then slices right. A. It is important for all golfers, regardless of ability to understand, that it is face angle at contact that controls the initial direction of…

More than 30 men and women enjoy horseshoes

Participants learn rules and techniques.

Ted Ingalls Members of the All-American Horseshoe Association (AHA) hosted a Fun Day at the Courts November 12 for PebbleCreek women and men. More than 30 participants joined in the fun at the Sunrise Park horseshoe courts. The Fun Day focused on instruction and skill building. Instruction, with handouts, covered rules for play and scoring…

New Pickleball Club logo

During the annual Dinner-Concert, club secretary Jules Cardinale unveils the new club logo created by John Meyers and presents him with the first shirt bearing the new logo; photo by Doreen Cooke.

Pancho Epstein The PebbleCreek Pickleball Club has an exciting new logo from the mind of John Meyers. John described the creative process that went into the design that was written on Inkscape, a vector drawing program. “I was trying to think of what people in PebbleCreek would relate to. What is it they think of…

Bocce season deadline

Participants in the PebbleCreek Bocce Association’s Wednesday Morning League may have recognized that there is a local celebrity playing on the Court Jesters team. Congratulations to Carolyn Rota, who recently was named Citizen of the Year by the Goodyear Town Council in recognition of her volunteerism and support of various activities and events designed to recognize and honor our military veterans.

The Bocce Ball Winter Season runs from January 5 until March 11, 2016. League play is either on Tuesday night, Wednesday morning, Thursday night or Friday morning. Registration forms are located in the Bocce Slot at the Community Information Club Board across from the Eagle’s Nest Pro Shop. Early Registration Complete the Winter Registration form…

It’s a Jungle Out There! Theme of PCLGA 2016 Member/Guest

An excited committee of very energetic and creative ladies is working diligently to make this upcoming tournament a very memorable experience. With the theme of It’s a Jungle Out There, they are busy garnering sponsors, looking for tee prizes, arranging decorations and many more activities. Dates selected for this tournament are April 10 through 12,…

PCM9GA posts results for off campus October tournament

Third place foursome at Sundance event, left to right: Jared Fox, Gary Payton, Ron Olberding, Trevor Ballinger

Erv Stein Our PCM9GA group made the most of the seasonal October reseeding necessitated closing of our PebbleCreek Golf Courses by conducting a total of four off campus 18 hole tournaments, utilizing Falcon Dunes on October 15, Coyote Lakes on October 22, Sundance on October 29 and finally the local Palm Valley Lakes Course on…