Category: Card Games & Sports

Word of the Month: Tardigrade

David Zapatka Luz Stella Perotti, friend and science enthusiast, says this month’s word makes her laugh and have a lot of fun. She poses these questions to introduce us to her fun word. “What is the most resilient animal in the world? What living creature can withstand temperatures down to minus 458 degrees F (close…

SBLGA-18 Holers

As I write this article the over seeding is in process and the course is already beginning to look good. By the time you read this and are back in SunBird; the course should be in great shape! Course schedule cha*nges: Dave Jones has informed me that we will have shotgun starts in the morning…

Pickleball news

Our 2016-17 season began in October. All players will be required to sign a waiver for play during Pickleball club times. We had four lined courts painted toward the end of last season with four regulation portable Pickleball nets. Still available for use are the two west courts with pickleball lines and tennis nets. Our…

Adopt-A-Hole program

Norm Ott The SunBird Golf Club Adopt a Hole program has been in effect for several years. This is a volunteer program where individuals adopt a hole and donate a little bit of their time each week filling divot holes on the fairways and tee boxes and repairing ball marks on the greens. Last spring,…

SunBird Tennis calendar

Christine Terechenok Mark your calendars for upcoming events. October 29 – Tennis social at Cottonwood November 1 – First tennis club meeting 5:00 p.m. in the Lakeview Room November 6-12 – Bradshaw week long tournament at Cottonwood November 19 – Tennis welcome back picnic December 3 – Tennis social at Trilogy and Tennis Christmas party December 17 – SunBird/Springfield hosts Cottonwood…

Play on the wildside… Golf with the Rattlesnakes

The Rattlesnakes will be playing Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, November through March. We play a modified Stableford format with both random teams and individual games. This format assigns fixed points for your stroke score on each hole. Run for the Jackpot and progressive KP’s are optional fun and challenging contests with opportunities to win money.…

Sign-up for the SunBird CRAB Golf Tournament

Norm Ott The SunBird CRAB Tournament, also known as the Team Championship Tournament, will be held on Saturday, November 19. This tournament is a competition between the Canadian Club, the Roadrunners Club, the Americans and the Bandits Club. The goal is to have 30 foursomes with a player from each club in each foursome. Points…