SPORTS: Staff vs. students
Students watch as Jake Mabery is safe at home, despite teacher Brennen Priefer’s attempt to tag him, during the Idyllwild School staff vs. student softball game Friday morning.
Photo by
Jenny Kirchner
Students watch as Jake Mabery is safe at home, despite teacher Brennen Priefer’s attempt to tag him, during the Idyllwild School staff vs. student softball game Friday morning.
Photo by
Jenny Kirchner
Golf Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the association’s regular monthly tourney held on St. Patrick’s Day, Friday, March 17, at the Morongo Tukwet Canyon Legends course in Beaumont. It was a beautiful warm day and the course was in good shape. Pete Holzman’s new swing paid off…
In his second-best finish ever at the Traveler’s Championship in Connecticut, Brendan Steele scored a 15-under-par 69-62-68-66 — 265 to tie for sixth place. Back in 2014, he tied for fifth. He’s scored several top-20s at this tournament over the years. The Idyllwild native pounded the ball with drives averaging 299 yards, finding two-thirds of…
Brendan Steele made the cut last week, earning a few more FedExCup points at the Deutsche Bank Championship in Massachusetts. He posted an even par 70-67-72-75 — 284 to finish tied for 44th place. From the stats, it appears that the Deutsche Bank punishing rough greatly inhibited the Idyllwild native’s game. His driving accuracy for…
Brendan Steele posted a 3-under-par 70-74-69-72 — 285 in the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio last week. The Idyllwild native’s drives averaged 318.8 yards while finding more than 57 percent of the fairways and hitting nearly 71 percent of the greens in regulation — he tied for third in the field in that latter…
Brendan Steele told the Town Crier last week that he had had mental troubles with his game since the Tournament of Champions in Maui, but that he felt that turning around at the Humana Challenge in La Quinta. While he missed the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open in La Jolla last week, he continued…