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.
Stableford scoring is supposed to reward risk taking, so Brendan Steele combined nine birdies against five bogeys Thursday to score 13 points in the Stableford scoring of the Barracuda Championship in Reno to position himself in 5th place, only 2 points off the lead. The Montreux course is 200 feet higher than Brendan’s native Idyllwild,…
When Brendan Steele missed the cut in the U.S. Open two weeks ago, it marked his sixth consecutive missed cut. But the Idyllwild native turned it around last week on the TPC River Highlands course in the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Conn. Steele carded a 6-under-par 68-68-72-66 — 274 to tie for 13th place and…
Will Steichen Recreation & Program DirectorIdyllwild Community Center The Idyllwild Community Center youth soccer season has officially kicked off. The opening game on Thursday, Sept. 23 between The Kraken and the Green Wolves turned out to be a high-scoring match. Jason Maldonado of the Green Wolves scored 4 points, and Makai Githaiga and Caleb Bischoff…
Brendan Steele scored the rarest hole-score in golf Thursday at the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Mexico: a double eagle, also known as an albatross. At the 532-yard par-5 13th hole, the Idyllwild native’s second shot from the fairway found the green and curled into the cup for a 3-under-par score of two on the hole.Brendan…
Brendan Steele, just coming off his best season yet, begins the new 2018 season this week by defending his championship in last year’s Safeway Open in Napa. The native Idyllwilder’s tees off no. 10 Thursday at 7:50 a.m. and off no. 1 Friday at 12:40 p.m.
Idyllwild’s Palms to Pines Golf Association held its regular monthly tournament in conjunction with the final match-play playoff for the title of Club Champion on Friday, Oct. 21, on the Legends Course at the Morongo Golf Club at Tukwet Canyon in Beaumont (formerly East Valley Golf Club). The course was in excellent shape and the weather was fantastic.