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Photo by John Drake

Photos by John Drake
PHOTOS: Sports: Idyllwild School Basketball and Holiday Bowl
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Sandii Castleberry’s wiffle golf fundraising tournament saw its fourth edition on the Castleberry Country Club course last Sunday. In its first year, the tournament has raised money for several worthy local causes and will continue to do so next season. Sunday’s outing benefited smARTS, an all-volunteer arts program for students at Idyllwild School. Heather Mello,…
Brendan Steele had another rough outing last week, this time at the BMW Championship, the third of the four season-ending playoff tournaments. His 6-over-par 72-70-79-73 — 294 fell well short of what he needed to advance to the Tour Championship next week. Although his season ended on a downturn, he was competing with the very…
Brendan Steele posted a 6-under-par 69-66-71-72 — 278 in the Honda Classic at Palm Beach, Fla., last week. The Idyllwild native’s performance was only six shots off the lead, but the scores were so tightly bunched that 40 golfers scored that well or better. Except for driving distance, in which category Steele was 13th in…
The course got progressively tougher for Brendan Steele last week in the Workday Charity Open in Dublin, Ohio. He posted a 2-under-par 69-70-71-76 — 286 to finish tied for 52nd place. Driving distance and greens in regulation were good stats for him last week, but driving accuracy and the putter cost him strokes. The Idyllwild…
Brendan Steele had a rough Deutsche Bank Championship last week, posting a 6-over-par 70-71-74-75 — 290. The Idyllwild native’s driving was off; he found only 55 percent of the fairways. He hit only 68 percent of the greens in regulation and gave away strokes to the field putting as well. Brendan picked up a mere…
Brendan Steele posted a 10-under-par 68-71-67-68 — 274 at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas last week, but many others played well, too, and he finished 10 strokes off the lead. The native Idyllwilder posted 18 birdies against 10 bogeys. He found almost 70 percent of fairways with drives averaging 308 yards,…