SPORTS: PHOTOS: High School Track


Brendan Steele stayed in Ohio after last week’s Memorial Tournament to play a qualifying round on Monday for this year’s $10 million U.S. Open. The Idyllwild native easily qualified by firing an 8-under-par 66-68 — 134 on the Wedgewood Golf & Country Club course in Powell, Ohio. The U.S. Open, one of the four “majors”…
Brendan Steele and his fellow pros shredded the TPC Summerlin course in Las Vegas last week during the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. Steele fired a 15-under par 66-65-69-69 — 269 to garner a tie for 16th place and a payday of more than $61,000. Almost all aspects of the Idyllwild native’s game…
By David JeromeCorrespondent Often these pages carry portraits of locals old and new. This week we present a conversation with a pair of “part-timers,” at least for the present. Michael Steele and his wife Cynthia, normally residents of Florida, have spent the last few weeks in Idyllwild recovering from this summer’s Baja 500, and preparing…
The opening game was between the Idyllwild Professional Cleaning Service Ninja Strikers and the Rotary Raging Rivers. The Ninja Strikers Eduardo Lopez was kicking the ball all over the field and played great for his team. The Raging Rivers’ Finneas Carpenter played great defense and was awesome for his team. He earned player of the game for his team.
Brendan Steele came up two strokes too many at the Pebble Beach Tournament last week, missing the three-day cut. He dropped from 45th to 50th place on the FedExCup points list. This week the Idyllwild native tees it up for the fifth consecutive week, this time at the $6.7 million Northern Trust Open on the…
Town Hall Sports Coordinator Bob Lewis gave this report on recent Adult Coed Softball games. On Monday, July 24, Forest Lumber beat Ajax 15-4. Also that night, Creekstone beat Forest Lumber 15-8. The next night, Idyllwild Arts lost to Forest Lumber 7 -18, and Ajax beat Creekstone 12-3. On Wednesday, July 26, Creekstone…