Brendan Steele finished up this PGA Tour season at the Deutche Bank Championship, the second of the four FedExCup post-season playoff tournaments. His general stats were a bit off his usual, especially strokes gained tee to green, which gave strokes back to the field. He posted a 1-under-par 74-71-69-69 — 283, which tied for 50th…
Golf Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the Friday, Aug. 15, golf tournament in conjunction with the first round of playoffs for the club championship. Play was at The Golf Club at Rancho California in Murrietta. It was a beautiful day and the course was in excellent shape….
Last week Brendan Steele made it into Sunday’s play in The Barclays, the first of four FedExCup playoff tournaments, but he didn’t score well enough to help himself in the standings. The Idyllwild native posted an even-par 71-71-69-73 — 284 to finish in 57th place. He found only 53.6 percent of the fairways with drives…
Brendan Steele didn’t tear up the course in Louisville last week, but he played the weekend, earned some money and gained a few more FedExCup points in the PGA Championship, the final major of the year. It also was the Idyllwild native’s final tournament of the regular season, since he will sit out this week’s…
Town Hall Sports Coordinator Richard Mozeleski gave this report on local sports: Adult Coed Softball Well, sports fans, they’ve come through turn four, heading down the last stretch with one week of games to play — Pacific Slope still up by two lengths with Ajax and Creekstone running close and Forest Lumber on their heels…
Brendan Steele chalked up his eighth top-25 finish in 23 entries so far this season at the Barracuda Championship in Reno last week. He found more than 80 percent of the fairways with drives averaging 321 yards. Steele also hit more than 77 percent of the greens in regulation and gained 0.292 strokes putting against…
Adult Coed Softball Town Hall Sports Coordinator Richard Mozeleski gave this report on adult coed softball standings through Aug. 2. Well, race fans, it was quite a week at Idyllwild School field. Pacific Slope is still comfortably out front of the group by a couple of lengths, with Forest Lumber and Team Ajax nipping at…
Geri Peterson came to be a pool player when her father bought her sister a pool table for her birthday. It was set up in such a small room, she remembers, they had to use short cues and open all the doors and windows in order to play. In the beginning, her dad won regularly….
Within eight days, Brendan Steele scored top-five finishes in two PGA Tour events, the most recent being his tie for fifth at last week’s Quicken Loans National on the Congressional Country Club course in Bethesda, Maryland. The Idyllwild native posted a 2-under-par 74-66-71-71 — 282, which earned him 100 FedExCup points, brought his season subtotal…
After missing two straight cuts and a U.S. Open qualifying playoff by a single stroke, Brendan Steele broke out of a short, mid-season slump big time last week at the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut. The Idyllwild native opened on Thursday with a blistering 62, his second 62 of the season and the lowest round…
