Lea Ann Kirby The 2020 RRWGA Mixed Invitational was held a week late, on Nov. 3 this year, due to weather! We ended up playing on a 70-degree day instead of a 30-degree day! We had 64 people turn out for this annual event on a beautiful day in November. Our event chairs were Connie…
Don Pooley On Nov. 13, the Robson Ranch Table Tennis Club announced the champions of the Dave Cooper Team Tournament—Norris Drum and Jack Zastrow. The runner-up team is Butch Southard and Jim Doyle (after Jim’s tie breaking sudden death win over Pete Belding). Dave Cooper, the tournament’s namesake, presented trophies to the champion and runner-up…
David Zapatka Often called the most important shot in all of pickleball, the dink is the critical shot aspiring players must learn to improve their game. The dink is a shot hit slowly and softly into the opponents’ non-volley zone, as close to the net as possible. If the opponent hits this ball hard, it…
Dave Parker With the growing demand for lighted evening pickleball courts, the Robson Ranch Pickleball Club decided to step up and make it happen! The club was polled, and a majority of the members supported the funding for lighting eight additional pickleball courts. After three years of planning, the lighting project was completed. Robson Ranch now…
Lawrence Wheeless Over 40 Lady Niners joined together to finish the 2020 season in a spooky nine-hole challenge designed by DeeDee Karabetsos and Mary Sholty. Dressed in appropriate costume, every golfer faced a unique opportunity to excel on each hole, and the best player was rewarded with a prize. At the end, all scores were…
Kevin Murphy Congratulations to this year’s RRMGA Shootout Champions Doyle Hicks and Scott Lancaster. Doyle outlasted Ed Dorman for the White Tee Championship, when they tied on the last hole, and the champion was determined by a putt off. Ed went first and lagged a lengthy putt to within a foot of the cup, and…