First Quarter Photo Challenge

March Photography Contest Winners

Science Club Tours U of A Tree-Ring Lab

Quail Creek Quilt Covey Hosts “Duffle Bag Extravaganza” to Support Foster Children

Relishing Pickleball: Playing in the Wind

David Zapatka Wind is the great equalizer on the pickleball court. It doesn’t matter how polished your dink game is or how powerful your drive is; a stiff breeze can turn your best shots into unforced errors in a hurry. The good news is that with a few smart adjustments, you can use the wind…

Learn One, Do One, Teach One

Shireen Kolarik The Quail Creek Pickleball Club has a new class. Karen Morse has developed a Footwork Clinic that emphasizes improving foot strength to enhance balance and footwork, which in turn aids movement and shot mechanics. Karen has developed this clinic over the last two years and has experimented on willing pickleball players both in…

Play Your Best Pool: Separate Practice Mode from Playing Mode

Johnny Henson, Professor Pool One of the most common and most misunderstood performance killers in billiards is the failure to separate practice mode from playing mode. This is where analysis paralysis lives, and where many players unknowingly sabotage their own ability. Analysis paralysis occurs when practice-mode thinking leaks into performance-mode execution. Instead of allowing trained…

QCMGA Results

Two Man Shamble, February 24 Gold/Silver Flight: 1st Patrick Carroll and John Klimek -11, 2nd Mike J. Neely and Steven Arendt -9, 3rd Ray Linnell and Jay Allred -8 Silver Flight: 1st John Oljar and Mike Fox Sr. -11, 2nd Bill Sheppard and Bob Spetter -10, 3rd Steve Wells and Bill Chapman -9 Silver Flight…

Putters Latest Winners

Peggy McGee The Lady Putters started their weekly putting sessions with summer hours when the March temperatures started mimicking typical May temps. But the heat definitively did not keep some of the ladies from putting with accuracy. Maybe it was the warmth, but there was only one Lady Putter who got a hole–in–one on the…