Howie Tiger Peter Estelle and Doug Stevens were the overall winners of the 2025 PebbleCreek Men’s Golf Association (PCMGA) 28th annual Member–Guest tournament. The tourney was held on April 23, 24, and 25 playing the East and West courses at Tuscany Falls. One hundred and eight 2-man teams competed in a match play format. There…
Dan Harris, travel team coordinator On April 9, the PebbleCreek Billiards Club (PCBC) and Buckeye Legends (BL) faced off in a friendly but very competitive billiards showdown at PebbleCreek’s Salerno Billiards Room. Two matches took place. In the first, the four players from each club faced off in one-on-one 8-ball games, each playing every opponent…
Howie Tiger On April 3 at the Member-Member tournament annual meeting, the PebbleCreek Men’s Golf Association (PCMGA) elected officers for the 2025-26 golfing season. They officially take office on June 1. Introducing our leaders: Joey Grande (President)—Joey was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. He earned his B.A. in Accounting and Finance at Baruch College…
Jim Padgitt PebbleCreek Billiard Club members completed Early Spring competition in challenging eight-week 8-Ball and 10-Ball tournaments played in a demanding round-robin format. Former Coloradan Harold Erker earned the 8-Ball Grand Championship title by winning 41 games and a total of 47 points (one point for each game won, plus 3-point bonus for each weekly…
Johnny Henson, Professor Pool A routine is a sequence of actions or steps that you do repeatedly when playing. When watching many professional men and women players you see a lot of strokes and also different pre shot routines. When I watch the top players I see that they try to repeat the same routine…
Pat Jensen As our official PebbleCreek Ladies Nine-Hole Golf Association (PCL9GA) season comes to an end, we say good-bye to all the snowbirds in our group at our last event, the Spring Fling. We continue to play golf throughout the summer but with a much smaller number of players. All of our volunteers who have…
Howie Tiger On April 28, the 14th edition of the Marilynn Smith Scholarship Pro-Am teed it up at the Kierland Golf Club in Scottsdale. Thirty teams competed in a scramble format with each team made up of four amateurs and one LPGA Professional. In the past, this Pro-Am was played at PebbleCreek, Marilynn’s home for…
David Zapatka From 2.0 to 5.0, we have all faced the “bangers,” those players who prefer to hit everything hard rather than play the soft game hitting dinks and drop shots. Would you like to defeat these hard hitters? Consider adopting these tips. Hit deep returns. Keep the banger at the baseline with a deep…
Howie Tiger On April 23, the PebbleCreek Men’s Golf Association (PCMGA) provided a putting contest as part of the Member-Guest tourney. A putting contest was conducted on the lower putting green at Tuscany Falls. Two holes were set up for the contest. One called “West Course” was 35 feet in length and uphill for all…
Blair Dreyfus “Taking Care of Business” by BTO was a favorite of mine back in the early seventies and pretty much sums up how I feel about our club and its members. Being club president is easy when you have members who are willing to help when asked and sometimes they even read my mind.…