André Pilon and Pierrette Filion, husband and wife, from Montreal, visited Idyllwild for the first time last week. The couple have been famed for years as golfer Brendan Steele’s “Super Fans,” traveling to take in several of his tournaments each year on the PGA Tour. This year they left the frozen north to walk the course with his every shot each day at the Humana Challege in partnership with the Clinton Foundation, which is being played this week on three courses in La Quinta. Why not join them to cheer on our Idyllwild native? Check the Town Crier website, www.idyllwildtowncrier.com, on Tuesday late afternoon for Steele’s Thursday, Friday and Saturday tee times, or see story at right. Photo by Jack Clark
André Pilon and Pierrette Filion, husband and wife, from Montreal, visited Idyllwild for the first time last week. The couple have been famed for years as golfer Brendan Steele’s “Super Fans,” traveling to take in several of his tournaments each year on the PGA Tour. This year they left the frozen north to walk the course with his every shot each day at the Humana Challege in partnership with the Clinton Foundation, which is being played this week on three courses in La Quinta. Why not join them to cheer on our Idyllwild native? Check the Town Crier website, www.idyllwildtowncrier.com, on Tuesday late afternoon for Steele’s Thursday, Friday and Saturday tee times, or see story at right. Photo by Jack Clark

Brendan Steele will be carrying a slew of new sticks when he opens his main 2015 PGA Tour at the Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation in La Quinta this week.

The native Idyllwilder will be pounding a TaylorMade driver for the first time, a model SLDR, and his 3-wood will be one of two TaylorMade SLDR Mini-Drivers. He’ll be carrying a Callaway Apex 2-iron as a driving iron in his hybrid slot.

His 4-iron is a Wilson Staff FG Tour V4 “muscle cavity-back” and the rest of the set — 5 through PW — are Wilson Staff FG Tournament 100 blades.

Steele also will carry a Wilson 52-degree gap wedge and Titleist Vokey 54- and 60-degree wedges, along with a Titleist Scotty Cameron putter.

The bag itself is a Wilson Staff Centennial Tour model.

Ball, shoes and glove will be Titleist Pro V1x, Titleist/Footjoy and Titleist, respectively, and he’ll be sporting a Wilson Staff hat over Dunning golf apparel.

Steele will tee off Thursday at 9:00 a.m. on the 10th tee of the La Quinta Country Club course, Friday at 8:30 a.m. on the 1st tee of the Nicklaus PGA West course, and Saturday at 10:10 a.m. on the 10th tee of the Palmer PGA West course, all in La Quinta.

Come on down, join the Idyllwild gallery, meet Steele’s Montreal Super Fans, and enjoy some relaxing sun.