Ralph Fuchs The PebbleCreek Outcasts made a road trip to TPC Champion Course in Scottsdale on July 9. Pictured left to right are: Emil Economou, Steve Thimjon, Jim O’Grady, Jim Wambold, Bruce Baird, Jim Webb, Ralph Fuchs, Jim Herman, Steve Roseman, Ed Karpe, Tom Butler, and John Anderson.
David Zapatka Let the bad ones go bad. This is a skill we all need to learn to improve our game. How can we become more aware of balls that are traveling out of bounds? Any shot by the opponent that lands out of bounds ends in a winning rally for your side. Don’t give…
Johnny Henson PebbleCreek (PC) Billiard Club members have wrapped up summer billiards action with an 8-week 8-Ball tournament played in a demanding round-robin format. Former South Carolinian Jim Padgitt earned the Grand Championship title by racking up 46 8-Ball game wins and a total of 57 points. (One point for each game won, plus 3-point…
Blair Dreyfus Hey there ladies and gentlemen and all the ships at sea! That phrase “all the ships at sea,” as all of you I’m sure remember, belonged to radio broadcaster Walter Winchell. It was an inclusive way of greeting everyone listening. The phrase also included a sense of uncertainty as being “at sea” meant…
Erv Stein On the early morning of June 12 with prevailing still quite temperate weather, 68 PebbleCreek Men’s Nine-Hole Golf Association (PCM9GA) enthusiastic and motivated golfers gathered for our Ryders Cup tournament utilizing the Tuscany Falls East Front-Nine Course. The original Ryder Cup Tournament event, which began way back in 1927, was founded by Samuel…
Erv Stein For the torrid summer months, our non-snowbird PebbleCreek Men’s Nine-Hole Golf Association (PCM9GA) members meet weekly at the far more temperate 7:30 a.m. event start times and conducted a Lone Ranger Tournament on June 26 at our Tuscany West Course with 72 enthusiastic participating golfers. Utilizing the Lone Ranger Tournament scoring format, one…
Johnny Henson, Professor Pool When most players try to improve their games they sometimes work on too many changes all at once. It makes me think of the old quote: “Jack of all trades and master of none.” With this thought in mind, I want you to focus on just the shots that you miss…
Jim Padgitt PebbleCreek Billiard Club members have completed the second early summer season of their Scotch Doubles League. Scotch Doubles is 8-Ball with players alternating pool shots during their time at the table. Points are awarded on the number of game wins players accumulate during the 8-week, race–to-6 win tournament format. This season, Ken Copps…
Erv Stein Our PCM9GA, formed in 2005, elected a new slate of Board members at our recent June 13 board meeting. Introducing our new slate of board members as follows: John Craven, President—John grew up in Maryland and received his Criminal Justice Degree from the University of Maryland. John’s career included 33 years as a…
Erv Stein While the mass exodus of our PebbleCreek Men’s 9-Hole Golf Association (PCM9GA) snowbird golfers has reduced our summer event participation, 74 of our highly charged participants teed off in a surprising temperate environment on the morning of July 3 in our Match Play Tournament at our Tuscany West Front Nine Course. Match Play…