Howie Tiger Jim Haas and his son Andrew Haas were the overall Match Play Format winners of the 2016 PebbleCreek Men’s Golf Association twenty-first annual Member/Guest Tournament. The tourney was held on Thursday, April 28 at Tuscany Falls and on Friday, April 29 at Eagle’s Nest. Immediately after regulation play was concluded on Friday, the…
Cheryl Skummer Wow, It’s a Jungle Out There! tournament was a huge success! With drinks being served from a Tiki hut by the men as the ladies arrived for registration to brunch in the Jungle, two rounds of fabulous golf, fantastic decorations and hours of fun, there were many winners celebrating victory. April 10 through…
Mary Neeley The PebbleCreek Ladies Golf Association held its annual Cancer Awareness Tournament on April 5 on the Tuscany Golf Courses. The ladies were all dressed in pink for this charity event. The participants chose their own foursome for this team game. The league raised over $8,000 to donate to the National Foundation for Cancer…
Jason Whitehill Q. I am having trouble with my irons. I do not take a divot but quite often the club head hits the turf well behind the ball resulting in “fat” shots. If I try to correct, I hit thin shots. Pro’s Note: “Thin means hitting the middle of the ball with the leading…
Howie Tiger On Monday, October 10 the eighth annual Marilynn Smith LPGA Charity Pro Am will be played on the Tuscany Falls Course. Each team competing in the 8:00 a.m. shotgun scramble will feature one of 36 LPGA professionals playing with four men/women amateurs. The proceeds go to the Marilynn Smith Scholarship Fund to help…
Howie Tiger On Wednesday, April 27 the PebbleCreek Men’s Golf Association provided several Member-Guest pre-tournament activities at the Tuscany Falls practice area. The activities included the TaylorMade/Adidas Pro Shop, practice rounds and a skills challenge just like the one on Golf Channel’s Big Break program. The skills event consisted of three separate challenges: an 18-hole putting…
Erv Stein Our PCM9GA group, which has conducted numerous exciting and innovative golfing events in the past two years, just ran an extremely well received second annual Mixer Tournament with the Sun City Grand 9-Hole group. This two round event was held at the Desert Ridge Sun City Grand facility on Monday, May 9 and…
Erv Stein On April 14, our two PebbleCreek sanctioned nine-hole golf groups, the PCM9GA and PCL9GA, once again closely cooperated and the result was an outstanding eighth annual Mixer Tournament. A total of 140 most enthusiastic golfing participants, organized in 35 foursome teams, teed off in the familiar Scramble format utilizing our Falls, Lakes and…
Randy Prinz The weather was a little breezy when the 100 players started to putt – but after a while the players didn’t even notice the weather – they had to concentrate on the layout of each hole. There were laughter and cheers on the upper nine and the lower nine. I am sure that…
Suzanne Butler The annual two-day Member-Member Tournament held on March 22 and 23 truly looked like a Trip Around the World as the Lady Niners arrived on Day One dressed in attire suited to their favorite country. The event began with a Putting Contest, made even more challenging by a ring of international flags circling…