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Brendan Steele opens the new 2016-17 PGA Tour season in Napa on Thursday in the $6 million Safeway Open, previously the Fries.com Open, played on the Silverado Resort and Spa (North) course. The Idyllwild native has had mixed results on that course, but last year finished tied for 17th. B tees off Thursday at 8:40…
Steele’s one-under-par 70-71 — 141 in The Barclay’s last week was not good enough to make the cut in the first tournament of the FedEx Cup playoffs, so he earned no new FedEx cup points. However, he had enough FedEx Cup points built up from regular season play to advance to the second tournament of…
Brendan Steele fired a 12-under-par 65-67 — 132 Thursday and Friday at the Safeway Open in Napa to take the outright clubhouse lead, with few golfers out on the course. But one of them was red-hot Tyler Duncan, a 28-year-old relative unknown from Indiana who is only 486th on the Official World Golf Ranking. Duncan…
Native Idyllwilder Brendan Steele will join with Englishman Luke Donald in the team competition at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans this week in Avondale, Louisiana. Luke Donald is the younger brother (by six years) of Brendan’s regular caddie, Christian Donald. Luke currently is ranked 176th on the FedExCup List and 516th on the Official…
After being in the mix near the top through three rounds of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Brendan Steele suffered a tough 4-over-par 36-40 — 76 on Sunday, including a pair of double bogeys on the back nine, that dropped him to a tie for 35th place by the tournament’s end. The native Idyllwilder did post…