Brendan Steele bogeyed his final two holes, Friday, to post a 7-over-par 5 over par 73-76 — 149, missing the cut by two strokes. This had to have been disappointing for him.
The Idyllwild native will take next week off.
UPDATE: Steele misses cut at Troon
By Jack Clark

Brendan Steele bogeyed his final two holes, Friday, to post a 7-over-par 5 over par 73-76 — 149, missing the cut by two strokes. This had to have been disappointing for him.
The Idyllwild native will take next week off.
For the third consecutive year, the Hemet High School girls’ volleyball team will play in the CIF-SS semi-finals Tuesday evening, Nov. 13. The Bulldogs, seeded second in Division 4AA, had a first-round bye. In the second round, they easily defeated Twentynine Palms High School in 3 games (25-15, 25-6 and 25-14). Saturday night, Hemet…
Baby daughter due this week Brendan Steele is sitting out this week’s World Golf Championships — HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai for a very good reason: He and wife Anastassia are expecting their first baby, a girl, on Thursday, Oct. 26, the first day of that tournament. The Idyllwild native will play next in Naples,…
Golf Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the association’s regular monthly tourney in August and the beginning of its year-end playoffs. Idyllwild’s Palms to Pines Golf Association held the regular monthly tourney in conjunction with the first round of playoffs for club champion on Friday, Aug. 18, at…
After a three-week layoff, Brendan Steele plans to play in three straight tournaments, the first being this week in the $7-million Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.During his three-week absence from the tour, other players continued to score FedExCup points, so the Idyllwild native has temporarily dropped to 103rd place on that points…
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…
Brendan Steele had the bad luck to draw an early tee time on Friday, requiring him to play round two of The Open in rain and wind. Shortly after he finished play the rain and wind quit, making for lower scores for the afternoon players. The native Idyllwilder’s drives found only 53 percent of the…