Steele T9 in the PGA Championship

Brendan Steele scored his best finish in one of the PGA Tour’s four major golf championships last week, turning in rounds of 70-72-69-68 to post a 1-under-par 279, which tied for ninth place. He notched an eagle and 13 birdies against 12 bogeys and a double over the four tournament rounds.

The Idyllwild native’s drives averaged 310.6 yards, finding 60.7% of the fairways and hitting 70.8 of the greens in regulation. He lost only about a quarter of a stroke to the field with the putter.

Brendan was not originally scheduled to play in the PGA Championship this year, but a last-minute cancellation by another player allowed him in and he responded with a fine top-10 performance, his first in a PGA major. He also had a T6 finish in the 2017 The Players Championship, universally dubbed “the fifth major.”

Brendan has moved up to 48th in the FedExCup points list, and 116th on the Official World Golf Ranking.

B has this week off, but he expects to play next week in the $12 million Memorial Tournament hosted by Jack Nicklaus in Dublin, Ohio.