Brendan Steele came back Sunday at the Waste Management Open in Phoenix with a 2-under-par 69 to earn a tie for 17th place. He was perfect with two birdies Sunday, posting a 6-under-par 72-67-70-69 — 278 for the tournament that was eight strokes off the pace. It was his third top-20 of the season in…
The tournament officials scheduled tee times particularly early on Sunday in an attempt to avoid the rain and wind that was forecast for the afternoon. Didn’t work. After only five holes of play, Brendan Steele and the rest of the players on the course were stopped by tournament officials. The rain, the wind and the…
Golf is a fickle game, it’s just fickle for pros on a different level. For Brendan Steele, the first three rounds of the CareerBuilder Challenge in La Quinta were quite promising: He went from 32nd after Thursday, to eighth after Friday, to 10th after Saturday — and he was as high at fifth at one…
After a long, year-end break, Brendan Steele kicks off the main part of the 2016 season this week in our back yard at the CareerBuilder Challenge in La Quinta. The event is played on three courses, so the cut occurs on Saturday evening instead of Friday. The native Idyllwilder currently stands 27th on the FedExCup…
Brendan Steele came down ill before heading to Mexico last week and considered withdrawing from the OHL Classic at Mayakoba. But he decided to tough it out anyway, hoping antibiotics would help. He traveled to Yucatan, then played in Wednesday’s pro-am and the first two tournament rounds before being cut on Friday. The native Idyllwilder…
Brendan Steele fired a 4-under-par 34-34 — 68 Sunday at the CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to tie for third place, his first top-five finish of the new season. For the third consecutive round, the Idyllwild native was perfect, this time with four birdies. He posted only two bogies all week, both in the…
After a top-20 season opening at the Frys.com, Brendan Steele missed the cut at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas last week. The Idyllwild native hit only 54 percent of the fairways and 61 percent of the greens in regulation, and he gave away strokes to the field both tee-to-green and putting….
Brendan Steele’s outstanding play gave way Sunday, and a dozen-plus players stormed up the leaderboard and dislodged him into a tie for 17th place. The native Idyllwilder could muster only a 4-over-par 76 Sunday as he posted a 10-under-par 63-70-69-76 — 278 for the tournament. One problem area Sunday appears to have been driving accuracy…
Although Brendan Steele didn’t post a win this year as he did in the 2011 season, in many ways 2015 was the best season of his five-year PGA Tour career. By the time he began the West Coast Swing in January, he already had amassed enough FedExCup points (172) to make it clear that just…
Brendan Steele closed out his PGA Tour season last week by carding 36-34 — 70 in the final round of the BMW Championship, the third of the four season-ending FedExCup playoff tournaments. For the tournament, he posted an 11-under-par 68-67-68-70 — 273, finishing in a tie for 13th place. This was by far the best…
