Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report on the Friday, Aug. 17, golf tournament played at The Country Club at Soboba Springs. The day was very hot and muggy, but the course was in excellent shape. Playoffs In the first round of the match-play playoffs, John McAndrews (course handicap 37)…
Idyllwild resident Bill Whitman competed in the 2012 USA Triathlon Age Group National Championships on Aug. 19. He did very well. Whitman finished sixth against 70 men in his division and 73rd out of a total of 1,024 competitors. In the Sprint division, he swam 750 meters, rode a bike for 20 kilometers and…
Going into last week’s Wyndham Classic in Greensboro, N.C., Brendan Steele was outside the top 125 players in FedEx Cup Points and about 36 points shy of what he would need to make that the PGA Tour Playoffs for the FedEx Cup. After a disappointing Thursday, the native Idyllwilder was even in danger of missing…
After missing the cut in the True South Open at the end of last month, Brendan Steele returned to action two weeks ago, scoring a tie for 8th place in the Reno-Tahoe Open. With modified Stableford scoring in effect, he scored 6-10-7-7 — 30 to win $83,000 in official prize money. The tournament was won…
After missing the cut in the True South Open three weeks ago, Brendan Steele returned to action last week scoring a tie for 8th place in the Reno-Tahoe Open. With modified Stableford scoring in effect, he scored 6-10-7-7 — 30 to win $83,000 in official prize money. Over the four-day tournament, the Idyllwild native collected…
Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report on the Friday, July 20, golf tournament played at the Moreno Valley Ranch Golf Club. The day was hot and so was Gary Brown (course handicap 16), who won the tourney with a net 63. He also won the low gross score…
Castleberry Country Club was once more the scene of local entertainment on Sunday afternoon, July 8. Sandii Castleberry hosted another of her popular wiffle ball golf tournaments, this time for the benefit of the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series. As usual, groundskeeper Henry Negrete had done a marvelous job of grooming the 18 “grays” (or…
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),…
After missing the cut two weeks ago in the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Conn., Brendan Steele last week posted 13-over par 71-76-74-76 — 297 in the AT&T National in Bethesda, Md. He tied for 68th place while earning $13,130 in official prize money. The Idyllwild native collected 8 birdies against 17 bogeys and two doubles…
Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report on the Friday, June 15, golf tournament played at the Red Hawk Golf Club in Temecula. The cool, cloudy morning gave way to a sunny afternoon. The course was in good shape with tiered greens. Bill Ragland (course handicap 15) and Bob Stearns…
