Share/Bookmark Last week Brendan Steele missed only his third cut on the PGA Tour this season. He shot 74-71 — 145 at The Players Championship in Florida last week, missing the cut by only one stroke. One double bogey suffered on the No. 4 hole on Friday was enough to do him in. Still, he [...]
Share/BookmarkFor only the second time this season, Brendan Steele missed a cut on the PGA Tour. He shot 75-74 — 149 at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, N.C., last week, and was three shots back of the cut number. The stats show that Idyllwild native had trouble keeping his drives in the fairways. He [...]
Share/BookmarkBrendan Steele played the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in nine under par last week. He posted a total of 70-71-70-68 — 279 to tie for 32nd place. Steele earned $33,528 in official prize money and 34.5 FedEx Cup points. After making the cut Friday, Steele improved on the weekend. On Sunday, his hot putter [...]
Share/BookmarkBrendan Steele posted a one-over-par 72-72-72-73 — 289 on the TPC San Antonio course last week to tie for 46th place and earn $16,580 in official earnings, bringing this year’s total to $352,695 to date. He also garnered 22 more FedEx Cup points to raise his season sum to 261. For the Idyllwild native, the [...]
Share/BookmarkOne week after his first missed cut of the season, Brendan Steele was back in the money. Last week at the Shell Houston Open in Humble, Texas, his five-under-par 70-71-71-71 — 283 was enough to tie for 38th place and $25,420 in official earnings. The native Idyllwilder hit 75 percent of the greens in regulation, [...]
Share/BookmarkBrendan Steele’s streak of eight consecutive cuts made on the PGA Tour ended last week on the Bay Hill course in Orlando, Fla. The Idyllwild native finished the first two rounds of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at five-over-par (76-73, 149), missing the cut by two strokes. Steele now has missed only one cut on the [...]
Share/BookmarkBrendan Steele went low on the first day of the Tampa Bay Championship in Palm Harbor, Fla., last Thursday, but the tough Copperhead course rose up and bit him on the second and third days. His opening round 68 had him tied for third place at the end of the first round, but the two [...]
Share/Bookmark A two-over-par 72 was how Brendan Steele opened the Honda Classic last Thursday on the tough PGA National Champion Course in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. With this score, he was good enough for only a 102nd-place tie by the end of the tournament’s first day. Then on Friday, while knowing that he had to [...]
Share/BookmarkThe tough Riviera Country Club course, home of the Northern Trust Open, has never treated Brendan Steele kindly during his three years on the PGA Tour. Last week, Steele improved his performance at the Pacific Palisades course. In his rookie year, the Idyllwild native stood 12-over-par after two rounds and missed the cut at Riviera. [...]
Share/BookmarkMost readers have not had an opportunity to cover a professional golfer at a PGA Tour tournament. And I’m thinking that most people haven’t attended a PGA Tour tournament as a spectator either. So I’m going to try to paint this with a fairly broad brush. About nine months out of the year, there is [...]
