Category: Sports

Not too late for Spring Bocce

Pat Milich It’s time for PebbleCreek residents who want to participate in the next Bocce Ball season to spring into action! Even though the deadline has passed for team registration for the 2017 Bocce Association’s Spring Season, individuals who want to get into the game still have time to register by contacting Treasurer Mollie McErlean…

PCM9GA conducts 3rd annual “Beat the Pros” Tournament

All Beat the Pro Winners

Erv Stein On February 2, our PCM9GA held our third annual Beat the Pros Tournament utilizing our Tuscany Falls and Palms Courses. We consider ourselves quite fortunate to be blessed with our top notch PebbleCreek Golf Pros which for this event included Dave Vader and Jason Whitehill. That being said, of our 111 PCM9GA participants…

PCLGA upcoming events

Lynn Matousek The following events are scheduled by the PCLGA for the months of March and April 2017 and, although they were noted in last month’s Upcoming Events article, they deserve to be mentioned again as they are the last scheduled tournaments of the PCLGA 2016-2017 season: March 14, 21 and 22 – Tournament of…

Putters Club fun

Linda Boyd with Golf Pro Jason

Linda Boyd was the only winner of an event that took place in January. The event was Dave Vader’s Sleeves. At the start of each of the Putters Club sessions, Teaching Pro Dave randomly picked out two hole numbers and if any player got a hole-in-one on either hole they received a free sleeve of…

Socializing at the tennis social

January mixer

Susie Anderson March is here and even though January and February were cool it never stopped the tennis fans in PebbleCreek from playing outside, even at 33 degrees in the morning. We have some changes and additions to the club, so read on! First: Our membership meetings will be moved up to 5:00 p.m. on…

PebbleCreek Pickleball Club hosted Chili Cookoff

From left: Shari Burns, Lauren Leonard, Linda Krueger, Karyn Davies, Tammy Woods, Pam Smith and Theresa Meyers

Pam Smith On January 22, 2017 PebbleCreek Pickleball Club hosted a Chili Cook-off. Free admission and lunch with a canned food donation for the Aqua Fria Food Bank. The cook-off was well attended with delicious chili selections of over 25 different pots! We awarded cash prizes for our five top chili winners. Great fun, great…

Hole-in-one

Pam Schunke has witnesses for her hole-in-one.

Lynn Matousek On January 29, 2017, Eagle’s Nest No. 17 was no problem for PCLGA member Pam Schunke as she made the most of a beautiful Sunday afternoon by getting a hole-in-one. Pam was playing with her husband Kelly and friend Roy Bridges. Using her gap wedge for the 99-yard hole, Pam hit the perfect…

PCLGA Roadrunners

Red Mountain Ranch, left to right: Marilyn Reynolds, Sarah Marsh, Kathy Hubert-Wyss, Barbara Patrow, Renee deLassus, Sheri Sears, Mary Falso, Ellen Enright

Lynn Matousek The PCLGA Roadrunners played at Lost Gold Course at Superstition Mountain on January 16 and Faldo Course Wildfire on January 30, 2017. Their most recent match was at Red Mountain Ranch on February 6, 2017. The course architect for Red Mountain Ranch is Pete Dye, one of the best known golf course architects…

PCL9GA Winners For January events

Memory Matters Falls First Place Team — Joyce Rustman, Marielle Ramsey, Brooke Veres (MHS), Charlotte Krause

Pat Kaer Memory Matters The annual charity tournament was held on January 17 at the Tuscany Falls Golf Course. The tournament was chaired by Kathy Dolan and Mary Lacy. This year’s theme was Memory Matters which supported Alzheimer’s Research. Members donated to Alzheimer’s Association Desert Southwest in honor of a loved one or friend. The…

Pink Power Abounds

PCLGA Pink Power participants, front row left of middle: Co-Chairs Linda Glazar (pink wig) and to her left Ellen Stergulz

Lynn Matousek Dressed in pink and ready to scramble. That describes the 163 PCLGA members who formed their own foursomes and played in the Cancer Awareness Tournament on January 17, 2017. Co-Chairs Ellen Stergulz and Linda Glazar organized quite a tournament promoting Pink Power for cancer awareness among the PCLGA golfers. An honor garden of…