Idyllwild Golf Club Champions!
Pete Capparelli and Jim Crandall are the 2024 Club Champions of Idyllwild’s Palms to Pines Golf Association. Crandall, who is the club’s handicap chairman, won the A-Flight championship and Capparelli, who is the club’s president won the B-Flight championship during the regular tourney in October at Rancho Del Sol Golf Club in Moreno Valley.
The two will go on to play in their respective divisions in the Southern California Golf Association’s (SCGA) Tournament of Club Champions on December 2. Crandall will play at the Palm Valley Country Club in Palm Desert and Capparelli will play at the Tahquitz Creek Golf Resort in Palm Springs. About 500 club champions compete in this year-end extravaganza at courses around the Southern California area. Flights are determined by individual golfer handicaps.
Idyllwild’s Palms to Pines Golf Association, which is a member of the SCGA, plays a tournament off the hill once a month. Players earn points at each tourney, which in turn determine the final eight in both the A-Flight and the B-Flight (handicaps 19 and above). The final eight go into single elimination playoffs in August, September and October to determine the club champion.
The club has been in existence for about 30 years and welcomes members from both on and off the Hill. If you are interested in joining the club, contact Pete at [email protected], or Jim at [email protected]. Or you can just go online to the SCGA membership portal and sign up. The following link takes you directly to the Palms to Pines signup area: https://membership.scga.org/start/join/?cid=724
