Brendan Steele notched a top-20 in Farmers Insurance Open PGA golf tournament played on two courses in La Jolla last week.

The Idyllwild native posted 65 and 70 in his first two rounds, but he had to settle for closing rounds of 76 and 75 to score a two-under-par 286. His drives averaged 300 yards, finding two-thirds of the fairways, and he hit nearly two-thirds of the greens in regulation.

Putting stats were not kept during B’s first round on the Torrey Pines North Course, but over his final three rounds, he gave away a net 2.674 strokes to the field with the putter.

Brendan put together 13 birdies against 11 bogeys, moving up 19 spots in the PGA Tour’s current FedExCup standings to 93rd place. This year, under significantly new rules, the PGA players will have to finish in the top 70 on the FedExCup standings list in order to be included in the first of the three Tour Championship playoff tournaments, so Brendan will need to move up 23 points during this season to qualify for that season-ending event in August.

B has this week off.