Sports: Hemet High School Cross Country

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Brendan 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…
Brendan Steele fired a 12-under-par 65-67 — 132 Thursday and Friday at the Safeway Open in Napa to take the outright clubhouse lead, with few golfers out on the course. But one of them was red-hot Tyler Duncan, a 28-year-old relative unknown from Indiana who is only 486th on the Official World Golf Ranking. Duncan…
The Hemet High School Boys’ freshman cross-country team finished first, against 14 other teams, in last week’s Mt. San Jacinto Invitational. Here, from left, are Jayden Emerson, Tanner Torrez and Chad Schelly. Tanner finished first, Jayden was eighth and Chad was 20th, competing against 168 other freshman runners.
For 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…
Brendan Steele’s good fortune in the 2023 PGA Tour season has not begun. He was cut this last week at the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Mississippi. The Idyllwild native dropped from 110th to 121st in this new season’s Official World Golf Rankings. He as yet has no ranking on the 2023 FedExCup list, and…