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Photo by John Drake

Photos by John Drake
PHOTOS: Sports: Idyllwild School Basketball and Holiday Bowl
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Brendan Steele missed the cut for the first time in six appearances at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas last week. He slammed drives an average of 328 yards, but they found fairways only 57 percent of the time, leading to hitting 69 percent of the greens in regulation — and he…
Brendan Steele had a rough time Friday on the South course at the Farmers Insurance Open in La Jolla. He posted only an even-par 72 and dropped into a tie for 47th place, with one stroke to spare above the cut. (Tiger Woods made the cut Friday with no strokes to spare.) The native Idyllwilder’s…
Golf Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the Friday, June 17, monthly golf tournament, which was played at The Country Club at Soboba Springs in San Jacinto. It was sunny and hot, and the course was in good shape. Jerry Daquila (course handicap 23) and Lev Sanford (23)…
Brendan Steele posted a 7-under-par 71-66-73-71 — 281 at the CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week to tie for 54th place. No stats are available, but he played more than 30 percent of the holes under par (22 of the 72). However, his scoring indicates a wild, up-and-down experience with 9 bogeys, 2…
The annual 5K & 10K Fitness Run and Walk is again scheduled for the first Saturday in June and the course, through Idyllwild County Park, is unchanged.
Brendan Steele turned in a fine top-15 finish at the Travelers Championship on the TPC River Highlands course in Cromwell, Conn., last week. His 13-under-par 68-64-67-68 — 267 earned him a tie for 13th place and a check for $112,500. Steele’s performance was aided by hitting more than 80 percent of the fairways with drives…