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Sports: November 10, 2016: Jayden Emerson
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Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the 2012 championship held last weeek at the Oak Valley Golf Course in Beaumont. 2012 Playoffs Chuck Alkire is the new club champion of Idyllwild’s Palms to Pines Golf Association. Alkire upset Bob Stearns in a close match at the Oak…
Brendan Steele carded a 7-under-par 68-68-69-68 — 273 last week at the Travelers Championship. The native Idyllwilder bested the field in all strokes-gained categories, garnering 7.279 strokes gained overall. His drives found 73 percent of the fairways and averaged 302 yards, the longest being a huge 354 yarder. He hit 69 percent of the greens…
Town Hall adult volleyball got started last week with a rematch of last year’s championship game between the Idyllwild Garage and Silver Pines Lodge. Idyllwild Garage won the match last year for their second consecutive championship.
Town Hall Recreation Director Bob Lewis gave this report on recent Adult Coed Softball games. On Monday, Aug. 7, Forest Lumber beat Creekstone 15-9. The next night, Forest Lumber beat Idyllwild Arts 15-8. On Wednesday, Aug. 9, Ajax beat Creekstone 21-16. The next night, Ajax beat Patty Perez 14-7. On Friday, Patty Perez beat Idyllwild…
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…
Coming off a fine tie for second place in his second LIV event at Tucson two weeks ago, Brendan Steele posted a three-under-par score last week in the LIV tournament in Orlando to finish in a tie for 36th place with a $141,000 official-money pay out. In a post-round interview televised by LIV, the native…