Steele misses cut at Pebble Beach
By Jack Clark
Brendan Steele came up two strokes too many at the Pebble Beach Tournament last week, missing the three-day cut. He dropped from 45th to 50th place on the FedExCup points list.
This week the Idyllwild native tees it up for the fifth consecutive week, this time at the $6.7 million Northern Trust Open on the Riviera Country Club course in Pacific Palisades.
Wendy Read coached Hemet’s AYSO under 10-girls spring select team this spring, The team finished first during the season and in the Thunderbird tournament in Moreno Valley. At the end-of-season playoffs, after two overtimes, the championship game was still tied. Unfortunately, the girls lost the shoot out by one goal. Local Idyllwild resident Shelby Read (bottom right) was on the team.
Above, Idyllwild School Principal Matt Kraemer (far right with baseball cap) organizes one of the teams playing in the Hemet Unified School District’s Kids Super Bowl. The event is for severely handicapped students. Kraemer first organized the event when he was principal of Little Lake Elementary and has carried the tradition forward at Idyllwild School….
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.
Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, gave this report about the Friday, June 19, regular monthly golf tournament held at The Golf Club at Rancho California in Murrieta. It was a hot day and the course was in good shape with fast greens. Crandall (course handicap 13) took first place with a…
Local real estate agent Gary Agner wanted to do something big, something that would help others. On Sunday, June 2, along with 2,500 other cyclists and 500 support staff, Agner begins a seven-day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, the AIDS LifeCycle. “I’ve never really done anything like this before,” Agner said,…
For the second consecutive year, Brendan Steele scored a seventh-place tie in the Alstom Open de France — the French Open — on the Le Golf National course in Paris last week. The native Idyllwilder’s four-under-par 70-70-71-69 — 280 total was two strokes better than he posted last year and earned 86,625 euros (about $106,000),…
