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TPC Sawgrass downs Steele and others

Share/Bookmark Last week Brendan Steele missed only his third cut on the PGA Tour this season. He shot 74-71 — 145 at The Players Championship in Florida last week, missing the cut by only one stroke. One double bogey suffered on the No. 4 hole on Friday was enough to do him in. Still, he [...]

The Amgen Tour of California races through Monday. The second leg of the race was from Murrieta to the Palm Springs Tramway and passed through Mountain Center and Garner Valley. Sixteen teams of bikers zoomed through Mountain Center starting about 1:20 p.m. Photo by Jenny Kirchner

PHOTOS: Amgen Tour passes through

The Amgen Tour of California is in its eighth year …

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Gary Agner bikes in AIDS charity ride

Share/BookmarkLocal real estate agent Gary Agner wanted to do something big, something that would help others. On Sunday, June 2, along with 2,500 other cyclists and 500 support staff, Agner begins a seven-day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, the AIDS LifeCycle. “I’ve never really done anything like this before,” Agner said, [...]

Steele misses cut at Quail Hollow

Share/BookmarkFor only the second time this season, Brendan Steele missed a cut on the PGA Tour. He shot 75-74 — 149 at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, N.C., last week, and was three shots back of the cut number. The stats show that Idyllwild native had trouble keeping his drives in the fairways. He [...]

Mountain bikers begin pedaling at the start of Saturday’s Idyllwild Spring Challenge. Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Idyllwild riders make strong showing in Spring Challenge

Once again, Idyllwild locals rode great races in the 2013 Spring Challenge mountain bike race …

Mark Dean and a Boston police officer, to whom he made a promise. 	Photo courtesy of Mark Dean

Mark Dean recalls his Boston Marathon experience: A promise to a first responder

Share/BookmarkFor Mark Dean there were two Boston Marathons, the one that he trained for and the one he ran. Although he ran qualifying marathons in the flatlands, he trained in the mountains. The low atmospheric pressure and the highs he experienced running in the mountains sustained him well during the first 20 miles of the [...]

Doris Lombard designed a new logo for the front of the T-shirts for the Idyllwild 5K and 10K race and walk Courtesy of the Idyllwild Race Committee

Idyllwild’s 5K and 10K June 1: Leadership begins transition

The annual 5K & 10K Fitness Run and Walk is again scheduled for the first Saturday in June and the course, through Idyllwild County Park, is unchanged.

Steele at New Orleans

Share/BookmarkBrendan Steele played the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in nine under par last week. He posted a total of 70-71-70-68 — 279 to tie for 32nd place. Steele earned $33,528 in official prize money and 34.5 FedEx Cup points. After making the cut Friday, Steele improved on the weekend. On Sunday, his hot putter [...]

Gary Brown fishing his ball out of the Diamond Valley Golf Club’s 17th hole, where he had a hole-in-one, the first ever for the Palms to Pines Golf Association.  Photo by Jim Crandall

Sports Roundup: Golf

Share/BookmarkJim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the Friday, April 19, golf tournament at the Diamond Valley Golf Club. Idyllwild’s Gary Brown shot a hole-in-one on the par 3 17th hole during Palms to Pines Golf Association’s regular monthly tournament. Brown is the first member to ever hole-in-one in [...]

Mark Dean training .  Photo courtesy of Mark Dean

Pine Cove resident Mark Dean heads to Boston Marathon

Share/BookmarkPine Cove resident Mark Dean heads to Boston on Tuesday, April 9, to run for the first time in that city’s prestigious marathon. As the Hill’s sole runner in the Monday, April 15, Boston event, Dean, 60, said he is proud to represent the mountain communities. The mountain may also have conferred an advantage on [...]

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