Brendan Steele fired a 4-under-par 34-34 — 68 Sunday at the CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to tie for third place, his first top-five finish of the new season. For the third consecutive round, the Idyllwild native was perfect, this time with four birdies. He posted only two bogies all week, both in the…
After a top-20 season opening at the Frys.com, Brendan Steele missed the cut at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas last week. The Idyllwild native hit only 54 percent of the fairways and 61 percent of the greens in regulation, and he gave away strokes to the field both tee-to-green and putting….
Brendan Steele’s outstanding play gave way Sunday, and a dozen-plus players stormed up the leaderboard and dislodged him into a tie for 17th place. The native Idyllwilder could muster only a 4-over-par 76 Sunday as he posted a 10-under-par 63-70-69-76 — 278 for the tournament. One problem area Sunday appears to have been driving accuracy…
In four years, the Idyllwild Middle School cross-country team has grown from 10 runners to 32, said coach Lee Arnson. He and Misty Hitchcock, both volunteer coaches, have built a thriving sport in Idyllwild that few other Hemet Unified middle schools have. “Every year, the team is bigger and bigger. It makes it more fun,”…
Mountain runners strong HHS cross-country team competitors
Although Brendan Steele didn’t post a win this year as he did in the 2011 season, in many ways 2015 was the best season of his five-year PGA Tour career. By the time he began the West Coast Swing in January, he already had amassed enough FedExCup points (172) to make it clear that just…
Brendan Steele closed out his PGA Tour season last week by carding 36-34 — 70 in the final round of the BMW Championship, the third of the four season-ending FedExCup playoff tournaments. For the tournament, he posted an 11-under-par 68-67-68-70 — 273, finishing in a tie for 13th place. This was by far the best…
Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, gave this report about the Friday, Sept. 18, regular monthly golf tournament and club playoffs held at The Country Club at Soboba Springs. The regular monthly tournament was also in conjunction with its second round of match-play playoffs for the 2015 club championship. In the match-play…
Brendan Steele made the cut last week, earning a few more FedExCup points at the Deutsche Bank Championship in Massachusetts. He posted an even par 70-67-72-75 — 284 to finish tied for 44th place. From the stats, it appears that the Deutsche Bank punishing rough greatly inhibited the Idyllwild native’s game. His driving accuracy for…
Pickleball is the newest racquet and court sport and its popularity is soaring. Its origin is credited to a group of Washington state dads trying to entertain their bored children over the summer. Since March 2010, when the number of places to play was fewer than 1,000, the number of sites has more than…
