Brendan Steele

Steele to play in ZOZO Championship
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Steele to play in ZOZO Championship

Brendan Steele will play this week in the $11 million ZOZO Championship on the Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club course in Chiba, Japan. Last year, the Idyllwild native fired a 10-under-par 270 in this event to tie for second place.Brendan now stands 119th in the Official World Golf Ranking.Brendan will tee off on Wednesday at…

Steele to play in Sanderson Farms
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Steele to play in Sanderson Farms

Brendan Steele will tee it up this Thursday in the $7.9 million Sanderson Farms Championship on the The Country Club of Jackson course in Jackson, Mississippi.He finished tied for 17th in this tournament last year.The Idyllwild native currently is ranked no. 110 in the Official World Golf Rankings.Brendan will tee off Thursday at 11:12 a.m….

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Steele opens 13th season on PGA Tour

Brendan Steele opens his 13th consecutive season on the PGA Tour Thursday of this week in the $8 million Fortinet Championship on the Silverado Resort and Spa North Course in Napa. The Idyllwild native has won this tournament two years consecutively, in 2016 and 2017, when it was named the Safeway Open. The 39-year-old finished…

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Brendan Steele WILL play in the BMW Championship this week!

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 this week’s Town Crier. I was under the very mistaken impression that a player not only needed to score high enough on the FedExCup list to advance…

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Steele starts FedExCup play-offs this week

It’s the 2022 PGA Tour post-season, and this year the FedExCup Champion will be determined after three tournaments: the FedEx St. Jude Championship (played this week), next week’s BMW Championship and the Tour Championship played the week after next. Idyllwild native Brendan Steele qualified for this week’s $15 million St. Jude, which will be played…

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Steele T30 at Rocket; plays next in FedExCup play-offs

Brendan Steele finished in a tie for 30th place last week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit, posting an 11-under par 69-69-67-72 — 277. The Idyllwild native’s drives averaged over 320 yards while finding 66% of the fairways, and he hit a sparkling 87.5% of the greens in regulation, but his putter cost him…

Steele cut in 3M Open; plays Rocket Mortgage next
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Steele cut in 3M Open; plays Rocket Mortgage next

Brendan Steele turned in rounds of 72 and 75 to post a 5-over-par 147, which missed the cut by four strokes at the 3M Open last week, which dropped him to 59th on the FedExCup points list.Brendan plays this week in the $8.4 million Rocket Mortgage Classic at the Detroit Golf Club in Detroit, Michigan….