Pat Kaer The Lady Niners are ready to begin a new season. October brings the Sun City Grand ladies to PebbleCreek for a fun day of golf and lunch. Away play is planned for two of the weeks that PebbleCreek is overseeding the golf course. Upcoming Events The Lady Niners have many activities planned for…
Erv Stein For a few years now, our PCM9GA has held Summer Sizzler events late in the summer dog-days and this August 25 event was certainly not by any means a Fizzler and surely met everyone’s expectations for starters. The tournament format, which was a normal Scramble format, was somewhat initially suspect since of all…
Erv Stein With many of our PCM9GA snowbird members still widely dispersed and away from the now becoming more tolerable Arizona climate, well over 50 of our usually highly charged PCM9GA members teed off at our Eagle’s Nest front nine course, utilizing still another interesting tournament format entitled 4 Corners. Utilizing this somewhat different 4…
Pat Ingalls From undeveloped land to lush fairways, and from self-proclaimed grass grower to award-winning, course-maintenance professional, Paul McGinnis has experienced and directed remarkable change, since hiring on as superintendent of Eagle’s Nest Golf Course in October of 1999. Now, after 17 years, PebbleCreek’s director of Golf-Course Maintenance is retiring, effective September 16. “Watching the…
Susan Knox Wilson If you ever watched the television series This Old House, you know the crest-fallen look the homeowners get when the show host, Norm, tells them that before they can even consider remodeling the kitchen, all the pipes in the whole house have to be replaced. The homeowners brighten somewhat when Norm suggests…
Howie Tiger The PebbleCreek Men’s Golf Association annually conducts a two-man scramble event which serves a dual purpose. It is a regular men’s day tourney, but six teams also qualify to enter the Arizona Golf Association’s Club Team Championship. The tourney was played on Thursday, September 1 at Tuscany Falls (Palms/Lakes Course). The senior qualifying…
Jason Whitehill Q. I am right-handed and my playing partners suggested that I keep my head down longer during my swing and to keep my right leg flexed during the back swing. A. Most golfers offer the “keep your head down advice” and it should be thought of as keeping your head steady through impact.…
Erv Stein On the morning of July 14, close to 100 PCM9GA/PCMGA members participated in still another Mixer Tournament, playing a full 18 holes at our Eagle’s Nest Course. In the last year or so, the PCM9GA and PCMGA groups have teamed up for several of these mixer events which have accomplished really great cooperation…
Lynn Matousek On August 9, 2016 a summer tournament called Sizzling Surprise was held by the PCLGA at Eagle’s Nest followed by a salad bar luncheon in the Eagle’s Nest Ballroom. Forty-eight ladies braved the sizzling and humid elements in flighted teams, playing a different format on each hole. One hole was two net best…
Lynn Matousek A huge congratulations goes to PCLGA member Jean Goodin who, on Friday, July 22, 2016, had a hole-in-one on hole No. 17 of Eagle’s Nest, using her six hybrid on the 105-yard Par 3. This wasn’t her first one. According to Jean, she has had two previous holes-in-one. Her first was on September…