



Softball teams face off over Labor Day weekend
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Pacific Slope’s “Buddy” Beagle hammers a home run during the Labor Day softball tournament.




Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, gave this report about the Friday, Sept. 18, regular monthly golf tournament and club playoffs held at The Country Club at Soboba Springs. The regular monthly tournament was also in conjunction with its second round of match-play playoffs for the 2015 club championship. In the match-play…
Brendan Steele posted a 1-over-par 71-69-74-71 — 285 in the Genesis Open on the Riviera Country Club course in Pacific Palisades, tying for 43rd place.The Idyllwild native’s drives averaged 296 yards while finding 55% of the fairways. Brendan hit 52% of the greens in regulation.His putter pretty much performed even with the field.Brendan still ranks…
Brendan Steele fired a 9-under-par 66-68-73-68 — 275 at the 3M Open in Blaine, Minnesota, last week for a share of 53rd place. The native Idyllwilder’s drives averaged 307.8 yards while finding 76.79% percent of the fairways, and he hit an excellent 84.72% percent of the greens in regulation. Putting hurt, though, as he averaged…
Lake Hemet’s resident eagle pair has produced a least one eaglet and perhaps two again this year …
Castleberry Country Club was once more the scene of local entertainment on Sunday afternoon, July 8. Sandii Castleberry hosted another of her popular wiffle ball golf tournaments, this time for the benefit of the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series. As usual, groundskeeper Henry Negrete had done a marvelous job of grooming the 18 “grays” (or…
Stableford scoring is supposed to reward risk taking, so Brendan Steele combined nine birdies against five bogeys Thursday to score 13 points in the Stableford scoring of the Barracuda Championship in Reno to position himself in 5th place, only 2 points off the lead. The Montreux course is 200 feet higher than Brendan’s native Idyllwild,…