Steele plays this week in ZOZO
By Jack Clark
Brendan Steele drained this 12-footer on the 18th green Saturday for a birdie 4. Photo by Jack Clark.
Brendan Steele will play this week in the $9.95 million ZOZO Championship on the Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club course in Chiba, Japan. The Idylwild native finished in a tie for 70th place last year in this tournament.
Brendan will tee off on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. PT and on Thursday at 5:36 p.m. PT, playing with Doc Redman and Ryutaro Nagano both days.
The ZOZO will be telecast on the Golf Channel. You can follow Brendan on the pgatour.com website or with the PGA Tour cellphone app.
Brendan Steele notched his fourth top-10 finish on the PGA Tour this season, posting a four-under-par 69-76-68-71 — 284 at the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio last week. Seventeen birdies against 13 bogeys earned his second top-10 finish in as many tournaments. The Idyllwild native’s drives averaged 303 yards into 69% of the fairways and…
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