Roxanne Housley, Social Chair The Quail Creek Pickleball Club’s Social Committee hosted a social for 72 players on July 1. Before play began, three ladies, Betty Rongner, Debi Gutknecht (playing the autoharp), and Debbie Nelson, sang “America the Beautiful,” and then everyone joined in singing “God Bless America.” It was a very patriotic day filled with…
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Sports, August 2023
Play Your Best Pool: Roll to Where You Want to Go to Become a Better Player
Johnny Henson As a young adult, I did a lot of stop, stunt, and draw shots. Most players back then believed you could not control your cue ball without shooting a lot of these types of shots during your table play. A good player at a pool hall told me to quit trying to draw…
Sports, August 2023
Relishing Pickleball: Shot Selection
David Zapatka Continuing our study of Pickleball Fundamentals: Master the basics and compete with confidence by Mary Littlewood, we will now learn about the selection for the third and fourth shots of a rally. Third Shot: Serving Team “The third shot of any rally—a shot hit by the serving team—determines which doubles team will gain the…
Sports, August 2023
QC Golf: Miniature Photography
Ed Stephens I had fun using the Quail Creek golf scorecard as a backdrop to my miniature photography.
Sports, August 2023
QCMGA Results
QCMGA Individual Match Play, June 2023 COP Flight 1: 1st Russell Adamson 62, 2nd George Ratts 56 SCC Flight 1: 1st Bob Erickson 61, 2nd Jim Cooley 62 SCC Flight 2: 1st Michael Neely 60, 2nd Tommy Murray 58 SCC Flight 3: 1st Rich Morgan 67, 2nd Jim Lynch 57 SCC Flight 4: 1st Dave…
Sports, August 2023
Lady Putters to the Rescue for the Green Valley Food Bank
Peggy McGee Despite more than two weeks of triple-digit weather in Green Valley, on July 19, 39 brave Lady Putters showed up to putt and celebrate Christmas in July to support the Green Valley Food Bank. The hot weather did not keep them from wearing Christmas clothing, or at least Christmas-colored clothing, and holiday-style jewelry as…
Sports, August 2023
Large Golf Ball Donation
Dan and Tricia Miller collected about 800 golf balls over several months. All the balls were donated to the First Tee of Tucson. The First Tee is a nationwide nonprofit organization that teaches youngsters ages 5 to 17 the lessons of golf and values for a productive, successful life. Other donors this past quarter included the…
Sports, August 2023
More Quail Pins Awarded
Peggy McGee
Sports, August 2023
Hole In One
Third Time’s a Charm! Janet B. Johnson On Thursday, July 13, QCLGA League Day, Sonia Heeren had her third hole-in-one on Coyote number 8. She used her 9 wood. Roz Harrison and Michele Gazica got to witness this high-flying golf ball hit the green and go sailing back to the blue flag into the hole…
Sports, August 2023
QCLGA Results
Beat the Pro, Josh Wilks, July 6 Janet Johnson Thanks to Josh for playing with us and joining our lady golfers in the Grill after play for question-and-answer time, making this a very special and unique event. Josh scored a gross 73, and 10 of 38 ladies beat or tied his gross score with their…