Category: Sports

And a good time was had by all

PebbleCreek Team, left to right: Tony Monzo, Juergen Buehring, Leon Looney and Rudy Talts

Rudy Talts On August 6 two teams of pool shooters met at the pool room at Toscana’s Clubhouse and held an intercommunity pool shooting competition. The invitational team came here from the Trilogy Development at Vistancia. The home team was led by newbie resident Juergen Buehring and consisted of three members of the original Pool…

Pinetop Invitational Softball Tournament champs

Congratulations to PebbleCreek’s “C” Tournament championship softball team. They have been the winners of the Pinetop Invitational Softball Tournament two of the past three years. To find out more about this amazing feat read the article, Miracle on Dirt, the Sequel, found in the August Post on the front page of the second section. Or read…

PCM9GA and PCMGA follow on July 23 mixer

First Place Winners – July 23 Mixer Tournament, left to right: Gerald Kurtz, Jim Tackett, Grant Moorhead, John F. Adams, William Gainer, David Wattenberg; not in photo, Manuel Maciel, Steffen Jacobson

Erv Stein Fresh on the heels of our first ever joint PCMGA and PCM9GA Mixer Tournament conducted on June 11, a total of 92 most exuberant PCMGA and PCM9GA golfers teed off on July 23 for our second Joint Mixer event of the summer. Historically speaking, both the PCMGA and PCM9GA PebbleCreek men’s golfing organizations…

Pickleball Club welcomes 1000th member

Left to right: Officer at Large Bob Oswald; club’s first member, LouAnn Ashburn; club’s founder and first president, Grover Lumbard and member number 1,000, Rick Horst

Pancho Epstein The history is a bit muggy; now trampled under the play of more than 1,000 members. What is certain is that on June 8, 2007, according to an article in the July 2007 issue of the PebbleCreek Post, the first PebbleCreek Pickleball Club membership-social was held in the Chianti Room at Tuscany Falls.…

Ask Your Agents

Dear Cheri, Tammy, and Bety: I was at the airport the other day and noticed the TSA agent putting loose change left by passengers in a container at their security desk. What happens to that money? Signed, Tom Carings, Sun Lakes, AZ Dear Tom, I found this fun article to share with you and our…

Summer tennis news

July social fun

Rana Cukierski Summer is winding down and soon our snowbird tennis buddies will be returning to PebbleCreek. The summer heat and humidity has been intense as usual and early morning tennis is active on the courts. Good exercise and playing with friends in good competitive spirit is always satisfying and fun. Although, I do hear…

PCMGA holds 2015 Summer Sizzler Tournament

Net Winners, left to right: Dennis Thelen, Steve Straley and Edward Boehm; not pictured: Bob LeClair

Howie Tiger The PebbleCreek Men’s Golf Association held its annual Summer Sizzler tournament on Wednesday and Thursday, July 15 and 16. The first round was conducted on our Eagle’s Nest course and the final round on our Lakes/Falls course at Tuscany. The format was individual stroke play with gross and net winners awarded. The players…

Pro’s Corner

Jason Whitehill Q. All my divots go across my target line resulting in sliced or shanked shots. How can I correct it? A. Usually in this case, the golfer leaves his or her weight on the front foot and then during the forward swing, the weight reverses allowing the arms and hands to come over…

PC Putters Club member highlight

Cliff Olson prepares to sink a putt.

Randy Prinz Cliff Olson, one of our members, deserves special recognition. He not only is an avid member of the PC Putters Club, he also sets up our challenging courses every week. Cliff is a hard worker in PebbleCreek and the Putters Club. He is the person that adds challenge to our putting course every…