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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…
Brendan Steele posted opening rounds of 72 and 73 last week for a 5-over-par 145, which missed the cut by three strokes at The Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.For the two days, the Idyllwild native’s drives averaged about 300 yards while finding 71.4% of the fairways and hitting just under 64% of the…
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 have…
When Brendan Steele missed the cut in the U.S. Open two weeks ago, it marked his sixth consecutive missed cut. But the Idyllwild native turned it around last week on the TPC River Highlands course in the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Conn. Steele carded a 6-under-par 68-68-72-66 — 274 to tie for 13th place and…
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…
Emma Klingaman of Idyllwild is a sophomore on the Lees McRae College, North Carolina Cross Country cycling team. She has two second-place finishes in her last two races. The season ends in December.