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Steele just misses ‘sweet sixteen’

You can’t come much closer to being seeded into the brackets of the World Golf Championships Match Play tournament than Brendan Steele did last week.

In a tournament that starts with 64 of the best golfers in the world, the Idyllwild native advanced to a tie for one of the 16 bracket positions that would vie for the top spot. But his drive on the first playoff hole caught a left fairway bunker, which — in addition to the fact that Tyrrell Hatton then knocked his second shot to within 3 feet of the pin — cost Brendan the bracket spot.

In the earlier round-robin-match play, Brendan bested Charley Hoffman 1-up on Wednesday and Alexander Levy 3 and 1 on Friday, but lost on Thursday to Hatton 3 and 2. Hatton lost to Hoffman 3 and 2 on Friday, setting up the playoff with Brendan since both had finished round-robin play with 2 wins and a loss.

Brendan will sit out this week’s Houston Open, opting instead to prepare for next week’s Masters Tournament — one of the four “majors” on the PGA Tour — in Augusta, Georgia.

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