Brendan Steele tees it up this week in the first of this year’s three post-season FedExCup Championship tournaments. The Northern Trust, with a purse of $9.5 million, will be played on the TPC Boston course in Norton, Massachusetts. The Idyllwild native goes into this contest ranked 43rd on the FedExCup list and 98th in the…
Brendan Steele posted a 4-under-par 66-71-72-67 — 276 last week in the PGA Championship, one of the four “majors” on the regular PGA Tour. The Idyllwild native finished in a tie for 22nd place playing against most of the top players in the world. On the week, he averaged drives of 291 yards that found…
Brendan Steele earned 17 Modified Stableford points at the Barracuda Championship in Northern California last week to tie for 53rd place. Statistics were somewhat limited at this tournament, but over the four days the Idyllwild native’s drives found 78.57% of the fairways, allowing him to hit 69.44% of the greens in regulation. His putter was…
For the fifth time in his PGA Tour career, Idyllwild native Brendan Steele will compete in the Barracuda Championship. This year, however, it will be played on a different course: The Old Greenwood par-72 course at the Tahoe Mountain Club in Truckee, California. The Barracuda tournament is distinguished by its Modified Stableford scoring system. Instead…
Brendan Steele posted a 1-over par 68-75-71-75 — 289 on a tough Muirfield Village Course last week to tie for 13th place. Play was interrupted more than once because of threatening weather. This marked his fourth top-20 finish in 16 PGA Tour starts this pandemic-impacted season. Three of the four were top-six finishes — two…
The course got progressively tougher for Brendan Steele last week in the Workday Charity Open in Dublin, Ohio. He posted a 2-under-par 69-70-71-76 — 286 to finish tied for 52nd place. Driving distance and greens in regulation were good stats for him last week, but driving accuracy and the putter cost him strokes. The Idyllwild…
Following his fine T6 performance at the Travelers, Brendan Steele will tee it up this week and next week in two different PGA Tour tournaments on the same Nicklaus-designed course at the Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. The Idyllwild native has played the Muirfield Village course every year save one since joining the…
By Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chairmanContributed After a three-month hiatus, Idyllwild’s Palms to Pines Golf Association resumed its regular monthly tournaments on Friday, June 19 at Menifee Lakes Palms Course. It was a beautiful late spring day with mild temperatures and the course was in good shape. Sixteen players came out…
In his second-best finish ever at the Traveler’s Championship in Connecticut, Brendan Steele scored a 15-under-par 69-62-68-66 — 265 to tie for sixth place. Back in 2014, he tied for fifth. He’s scored several top-20s at this tournament over the years. The Idyllwild native pounded the ball with drives averaging 299 yards, finding two-thirds of…
Brendan Steele is set to tee it up this week in the $7.4-million Travelers Championship on the TPC River Highlands course in Cromwell, Connecticut. The Idyllwild native has previously played the Travelers nine times — every year since he joined the PGA tour — collecting five top-20 finishes, including a top-5 in 2014. PGA Tour…
