Chris Duprey The third Central Arizona Golf District (CAGD) tournament of the year was played on June 10, at the Orange Tree Golf Club in Scottsdale. The course was described as being long and challenging. Ladies were able to tee off early in hopes of beating the heat, but it got pretty warm. Despite the…
Chris Duprey Plans are underway for this year’s Summer Sizzler Tournament, Red Hot Sombrero Frolic. Tournament co-chairs Sue White and Judi Floyd have been hard at work planning this fun event. The tournament will be held on Aug. 13 at Tuscany Falls-East. The game will be individual gross and net while hitting from the red…
Chris Duprey The second Ladies Arizona Summer Survivor Invitational (LASSI) Tournament of the year was played at Copper Canyon Golf Club at the Sun City Festival in Buckeye on July 1. Starting with this tournament, a hole-in-one pot was added. At each tournament, ten percent of the mulligan money will be added to the pot.…
Chris Duprey Fifty-five PCLGA ladies played a four Lady Team-two Best Ball game on June 4, 2019, to celebrate Women’s Golf Day. Everyone wore either red or orange for the event and the smattering of color on the course was striking. Lynn Warren, the photographer, captured all the bright colors in his photo of the…
Howie Tiger The PebbleCreek Men’s Golf Association matched up with the PebbleCreek Ladies Golf Association in a two-day mixer tournament which was held on Tuesday, May 21, and Thursday, May 23, on the West Course at Tuscany Falls. Each day, a two-man team from the PCMGA was matched with a different two-lady team from the…
Deanna Mendiola On May 15, 2019, the PebbleCreek Ladies Golf Association’s board members and several committee chairs, out-going and incoming, met for a “cross-over” brunch hosted by President Marilyn Reynolds. The brunch was a delightful way to end the 2018-2019 season and provide an opportunity for the new board and committee chairs to have one-on-one…
Pat Kaer, Publicity Co-Chair On May 14, the PCL9GA honored Jinny Pearson by throwing her a surprise 90th birthday party. The event was planned by member Alberta Hohn, assisted by club president Barb Hockert, fellow Niner Judy Myers and Jinny’s husband, Willard. There was breakfast following golf, stories about her involvement in golf and a…
Chris Duprey The first tournament of the Ladies Arizona Summer Survivor Invitational (LASSI) group was played at Corte Bella Country Club in Sun City West, June 3, with a field of 112 players (56 two-person teams). Corte Bella Country Club is private and is built in traditional style with Bermuda grass fairways. Ladies reported that…
Pat Kaer, Publicity Co-Chair On May 23, the new officers for the PCL9GA 2019-2020 season were installed. Each was presented with a flower and words of encouragement from this year’s officers. Newly elected officers are Norma Guillaume, President; Bobbie Wagner, President Elect; Meg Chrisman, Secretary and Ruth Ann Mitchell, Treasurer. Their term began June 1…
Deanna Mendiola The second Central Arizona Golf District (CAGD) two-person, best-ball tournament was held at Alta Mesa Country Club in Mesa, Arizona, May 13, 2019. The course is a very challenging, members-only course that boasts lightning fast greens. There were four PebbleCreek teams who participated: Carol Sanders/Linda Thompson; Kathy Hubert-Wyss/Barbara Patrow; Jane Hee/Carolyn Suttles and…