Idyllwild native Brendan Steele will play this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, in the two-day Military Appreciation Pro-Am on the TPC Sawgrass course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The tournament will benefit Birdies for the Brave, a military outreach initiative originally created by Steele’s friend and fellow PGA pro Phil Mickelson and…

Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the Friday, June 21, golf tournament at Golden Era Golf Course in San Jacinto to benefit the Grandfathers for Golf youth program. The Grandfathers program, a free program dedicated to teaching at-risk kids how to play golf, is based at Golden Era….

The Los Angeles Marathon was Sunday, March 17, and two Hill residents completed the 26-mile jaunt. In her second marathon, Jana Baker’s time was 4:17:19 and Molly Newman, running her first marathon, completed it in 4:31:01. Running with more than 24,000 other marathoners, both women finished ahead of 18,000 other runners.

Brendan Steele will begin a new PGA Tour season, and his third season, next week in our desert back yard. The Idyllwild native will play in the $5.6 million Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation Tournament, which will be held Thursday, Jan. 17, through Sunday, Jan. 20, on three different courses in La…

One week after his first missed cut of the season, Brendan Steele was back in the money. Last week at the Shell Houston Open in Humble, Texas, his five-under-par 70-71-71-71 — 283 was enough to tie for 38th place and $25,420 in official earnings. The native Idyllwilder hit 75 percent of the greens in regulation,…