David Zapatka Summer is coming and the sun is out. The sun is beautiful, but it’s also a genuine challenge on the pickleball court. We love playing in it and we occasionally curse it while squinting into a lob we’ve completely lost. Playing pickleball in the sun is a complicated relationship. You need a strategy.…
Dennis Desmond and Alphie Smith The QC Billiards Club (QCBC) travel team concluded the 2025-26 season with a decisive win. They travelled to Rincon Country West RV Resort in Tucson on Saturday, April 11, for the season’s final match-up. This highly anticipated encounter held particular significance, as it had been a considerable period since the…
Alphie Smith and Dennis Desmond Pocket billiards is the name of the game: 8-Ball, 9-Ball, and 10-Ball—the Quail Creek Billiards Club (QCBC) is doing it all. On April 18 QCBC started up mixed doubles—a social event for women and men. Six teams played 9-Ball. There were five teams of women and men. This event hadn’t…
Tom Dean After three grueling weeks in March and record breaking high temperatures, Quail Creek Desert Duffers Club champions were crowned: Low net champion, David Martinson; Low gross champion: Sean Comfort. The Flight champions: A Flight: Dick Oscarson; B Flight: Kurt Summers; C Flight: Roger Ederle; D Flight: Skelly Skelton; Super Senior Flight, Denny Otten.
Low Gross Results Flight 1 Wranglers: 1st Rathvon and Skaife; 2nd Nicholson and Trimmer; 3rd Stensrud and Gibson. Flight 2 Levi 501: 1st Hiller and Tinsley; 2nd Martin and Shirley; 3rd Knox and Watson. Flight 3 Lucky Brand: Gibson and Hill; 2nd Cashel and Bajer; 3rd Brannan and Dietz. Flight 4 Bell Bottoms: 1st Gong…
Jane Gibson Congratulations to the eight ladies who played in the first Quail Creek interclub tournament at Country Club of Green Valley (CCGV) on April 2. Led by captain Jane Gibson, Quail Creek Ladies Golf Association’s (QCLGA) interclub team finished with a first place gross and third place net against five teams from CCGV, Torres…