I apologize to Brendan Steele and his family — including his parents, Kent and Jana Steele here in Idyllwild — and to our readers for my blunder in last week’s Town Crier.

I was under the very mistaken impression that a player needed not only to score high enough on the FedExCup list to advance to last week’s BMW Championship, but that he had also to make the cut in the previous playoff tournament round — the FedExCup St. Jude Championship — to advance to the BMW. Not so. The FedExCup list itself was all controlling, and since Brendan stood 66th on that list after the St. Jude, he was within the top 70 and was eligible for, and did play in, last week’s BMW.

The Idyllwild native posted 76-67-65-73 — 281 in the BMW to finish in a tie for 32nd place and move up to 61st in the FedExCup standings. But since only the currently top 30 on the list advance to this week’s TOUR Championship, his 2022 season has now ended.

However, the new PGA Tour 2022-2023 season begins only three weeks from now in Napa with the first round of the Fortinet Championship, which tournament Brendan won twice — in 2016 and again in 2017 — when it was named the Safeway Open.