Wally Ueberschar On Wednesday, May 13 twenty-one Desert Duffers took the opportunity to play the Mission Royal Golf Course in Casa Grande. The course was great; a soft breeze and with most of their winter residents gone, the course was mostly the Desert Duffers. After golf at the Mission Royal Course we headed over to…
Throughout the year the Quail Creek Veterans Golf Association raises money for its charity fund by organizing golf tournaments and other events. For the second year in a row, working with the Green Valley Military Officers Association, the QCVGA used part of those funds to award a scholarship to a local high school student. On…
Terri Erickson The sixteenth annual Rally for the Cure is coming Thursday, October 22, 2015! The Quail Creek Ladies’ Golf Associations, the 18 Hole Club, 9 Hole Club and the Putters are busy planning the event once again in conjunction with the Susan G. Komen Organization. That organization began in 1982, we are told, when…
Tim Phillips Mark the date – Thursday, August 6, 2015, Shotgun at 7:30 a.m. Only once a year do the men and women 18 hole golfers at Quail Creek tee it up against each other in a match play format. The Prickly Pair format this year is similar to last year when two person teams…
Sheldon Zatkin The Quail Creek Men’s Golf Association held its thirteenth annual Member/Guest Invitational beginning on Wednesday morning, April 22 concluding with an awards banquet on Friday evening, April 24. The Planning Committee recruited over sixty sponsors for this event. The tournament consisted of 66 two-man teams playing in 11 flights. Player registration took place…
The first place winners in the Partners Match Play Tournament, left to right: Sherry Morris, Bessie Moretto, Darthea Tilley, Nancy Diefenthaler, Barbara Erickson, Mickey Zimney, Paula Scafuri, Betty Martens, Barbara Haley, Lynda Eckebrecht, Sharon Bisping and Lynn Thomas.
Peggy McGee The Quail Creek Lady Putters will be holding a Christmas in July food collection for the Green Valley/Sahuarita Food Bank on Wednesday, July 8. Members are asked to bring donations of groceries, paper products, cleaning and hygiene items. Especially needed food items include peanut butter, canned tuna and chicken, baking products, salad dressing…
Christi Tucker This was our sixth year of hosting the Junior Tournament. The tournament consists of 36 Continental Middle School students and 36 Quail Creek Lady Niners. The students have to earn the right to participate in the tournament by written golf test, effort during their golf classes, school behavior, attendance and school grades. The…
Congratulations to Barbara Erickson, winner of this year’s SDWGA Telegraph Tournament at Quail Creek Thursday, May 14!
Skip Fumia A native of Tucson, J.R. Kies learned about growing grass and playing golf at an early age. His father was a landscaping contractor who knew how to grow things in the desert and his first experience with golf came at the tender age of 11 at the Forty-Niner Golf Club. He knew then…