Pete Williams Bill Halte, the PebbleCreek Hiking Club’s career leader in miles, hiked passed 6,000 miles on March 30 during a hike in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale. Bill, one of the originators of the club, has been hiking for many years but the club has only been tracking miles since 2004. Toasting Bill…
Erv Stein Our PCM9GA conducted its ninth annual Three Stage Club Championship Tournament on March 19, 26 and April 2 with a total of 84 highly motivated PCM9GA golfers participating utilizing all three of our Tuscany nine hole courses on a rotational basis. As in previous years for this annual championship event, a total of…
Congratulations to Kathy Hubert-Wyss as our repeat Club Champion for 2014-15. Mary Falso was the runner-up. You can’t have a Club Championship without competition. This year’s Championship proved that the PCLGA is a supportive and fun group. We had the biggest turnout in the league’s history. We had three beautiful days to play each PebbleCreek…
Gordon Seaman Tom Pizzello, a member of the Men’s 9 Golf Association and a Bunker Boy golfer, made his second hole-in-one in just six months on Tuesday, March 17. In Bunker Boy play, Pizzello was facing a red flag, fourth hole on the Palms Course when he wielded his 8-iron and made his perfect shot.…
Suzanne Butler There was a flash back in time on March 17 and 18 when the PebbleCreek Lady Niners celebrated their annual Member-Member event themed 60s Flower Power. It was great fun to revisit a time that held special memories for many of the Lady Niners. Everyone took advantage of the event to recreate their…
Pancho Epstein Gale Leach went from being a technical writer on how medical equipment should be used to writing how paddles should be used in the award winning popular book, The Art of Pickleball: Techniques and Strategies for Everyone, soon to be in its fifth edition. In between she was an English teacher, retail buyer,…
Pancho Epstein Under sunny Arizona skies, the PebbleCreek Pickleball Club’s first annual Skill-Level Ladies’ and Skill-Level Gentlemen’s Doubles Tournament was a roaring success. More than 600 people attended the event held March 25 and 26. Opening day action began with PebbleCreek Pickleball Club founder and first club President Grover Lumbard and HOA President John Kiekbusch…
Howie Tiger Weather played a key role in the outcome of this year’s PebbleCreek Men’s Golf Association Member-Member golf championship. The annual event was played over three days, March 11, 12 and 19, utilizing both Eagle’s Nest and Tuscany Falls courses. Early rains on the final day forced a cart path only rule and persistent…
Pat Milich The popularity of Bocce Ball in PebbleCreek continues to soar since the official opening of the community’s beautiful state of the art complex at Eagle’s Nest last fall. With the start of the spring season on March 25, Association President Cheryl Kasselmann reports that a total of 471 residents signed up to play…
Peter Boyce and Jason Whitehill Q. When my ball is on an upslope near the green it goes higher than normal when I use my wedge and is tough to judge how hard to hit it. Any suggestions? A. Many golfers forget that when they are advancing the ball up a slope, the position the…