Brendan Steele fired a 4-under-par 67 Sunday to tie for third in the Waste Management Phoenix Open. He was 15 under for the tournament, only three shots off the lead. For the week, the Idyllwild native found 48 percent of the fairways with drives averaging 315 yards, the longest being 343, and he hit 72…

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 fired a 5-under-par 70-71-72-70 — 283 last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Florida, to tie for 17th place and capture his second top-20 finish of this PGA Tour season. On the week, the Idyllwild native found 69 percent of the fairways with drives averaging 300 yards. His approaches hit 67…