All Winners – PCM9GA June 25 Cha-Cha-Cha Tournament: row 1, Richard Schmidt, Josh Rabinowitz and Frank Rodgers; row 2, Greg Ray, Lou Cerri, Larry Waggoner, John Ward, Ken Laychak, Clay Troxell, Robert Risden, Dave Baseheart and Ray Clements. Not pictured Manuel Maciel.
Erv Stein
Now that we are in the middle of the Arizona torrid heat and quite humid Monsoon climate, and with many of our snowbird members long gone to wherever they can cool off, a somewhat smaller but still sizable group of about 50 enthusiastic PCM golfers tied off on our Tuscany Lakes Course on Thursday, June 25 utilizing once again the CHA-CHA-CHA Tournament format. For the hot season months for May through September our PCM9GA group most fortunately is blessed with 7:30 a.m. tee times which means we finish up in the range of about 10:00 a.m. and gather at the clubhouse for refreshments long before the furnace like Arizona heat takes hold.
For those of us not quite familiar with the seemingly myriad of golf tournament scoring formats, the Cha-Cha-Cha Tournament format utilizes the net scores of from one to three foursome team members based upon the golf hole being played. For example, one team member’s net score was used for holes 1, 4 and 7. Moving on now for holes 2, 5, and 8 and then holes 3, 6 and 9, two and three team member scores were respectively compiled to determine the net aggregate team score for the full nine holes played. As always, for such tournament formats, the scores compiled for each team member are net scores based upon their prevailing AGA handicaps. This is one intriguing aspect of the tournament net adjusted per player scores since it affords the opportunity of having their ego tremendously boosted by getting a PAR on a PAR 5 hole and having their high handicap rating result in getting a net three or two for the hole which equates to a virtual Eagle or perhaps a double Eagle.
Our hats off to the winning foursomes and Closest to the Pin winners as follows:
First Place 39 Chris Mucha, Randy Prinz, Dave Baseheart, Ron Dickerson
Second Place 42 Larry Gleason, Connie Neeley, Al Lowe, Willard Pearson
Third Place 42 John Brown, Tom Pizzello, Stan Fuller, Ziggy Butkiewicz
Closest to Pin Winners Josh Rabinowitz and Dave Baseheart
Our PCM9GA busy summer and fall schedule includes the second PCM9GA and PCMGA Mixer Tournament held on July 23 followed by the Summer Sizzler event on September 3 and soon afterwards our highly anticipated Summer Survivor Tournament to be held on September 25.
As always, we highly urge new, interested members to join our fun loving group which welcomes golfers at all skill levels. The $50 annual cost includes dues for the AGA membership which is essential for handicap reporting. Please visit the PebbleCreek PCM9GA website at www.PCM9GA.org or you may contact our current PCM9GA Membership Chairman Bruce Hulbert at 623-535-8761.