Howie Tiger The PebbleCreek Men’s Golf Association (PCMGA) annually conducts a two-man scramble event, which serves a dual purpose. It is a regular men’s day tourney, but five teams also qualify to enter the Arizona Golf Association’s Club team championship. The tourney was played on Thursday, Sept. 5 at Eagle’s Nest. The senior qualifying teams (age…
Howie Tiger The PebbleCreek Men’s Golf Association conducted their “Summer Sizzler” golf tournament on Wednesday, July 24 and Thursday, July 25. Early morning shotgun starts helped the players cope with high humidity (monsoon season) and searing temperatures. They played the Tuscany Falls West course on Wednesday and the Tuscany Falls East course on Thursday. A…
Chris Duprey The third LASSI tournament of the year was held at the Coyote Lakes Golf Club in Surprise on August 5, 2019. The course had some very interesting holes; especially one of the Par 5’s. There was a rock wall across the fairway which players had to hit over to get onto the green.…
Howie Tiger On June 22, Bruce Carlyle reached a milestone that very few golfers can even imagine. At age 76, he shot his age (or better) for the 200th time. This is an amazing accomplishment as it has been estimated that the percentage of golfers who ever shoot their age even once is .0000089% or…
Christopher Mucha How do the PCM9GA, Golfing Niners, take to the desert heat? The hot summer temps are here, and some of the scores on the golf course are even hotter! This month saw very nice turnouts in triple digit heat for the club’s mini-tournaments. Cash and cool refreshments rewarded the participants for their efforts.…
Pat Milich If you happen to overhear someone with a distinct Scottish accent singing I’m Proud To Be An American, it’s a good bet that PebbleCreek’s newest American Citizen Tony Ryan is somewhere near. This popular patriotic song is very dear to Tony because on July 4, he became a citizen of the United States…
Chris Duprey The third Central Arizona Golf District (CAGD) tournament of the year was played on June 10, at the Orange Tree Golf Club in Scottsdale. The course was described as being long and challenging. Ladies were able to tee off early in hopes of beating the heat, but it got pretty warm. Despite the…
Chris Duprey Plans are underway for this year’s Summer Sizzler Tournament, Red Hot Sombrero Frolic. Tournament co-chairs Sue White and Judi Floyd have been hard at work planning this fun event. The tournament will be held on Aug. 13 at Tuscany Falls-East. The game will be individual gross and net while hitting from the red…
Christopher Mucha What do you do to celebrate the Fourth of July? No, there was no hot dog-eating contest, and the fireworks came later in the evening. But, if you are in the PebbleCreek Men’s 9 Hole Golf Association (PCM9GA), you hold a Patriots Tournament and have the Golfing Niners come dressed in their best…
Chris Duprey Fifty-five PCLGA ladies played a four Lady Team-two Best Ball game on June 4, 2019, to celebrate Women’s Golf Day. Everyone wore either red or orange for the event and the smattering of color on the course was striking. Lynn Warren, the photographer, captured all the bright colors in his photo of the…