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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
Brendan Steele notched his seventh top-25 finish on the PGA Tour this season, posting an eight-under-par 68-66-69-69 — 272 at the Travelers Championship at Cromwell, Connecticut last week. Fifteen birdies against seven bogeys earned his third top-25 finish in a row and his eighth consecutive tournament without being cut.The Idyllwild native’s drives averaged 302 yards…
By Will SteichenRecreation & Program DirectorIdyllwild Community Center
Brendan Steele notched his fourth top-10 finish on the PGA Tour this season, posting a four-under-par 69-76-68-71 — 284 at the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio last week. Seventeen birdies against 13 bogeys earned his second top-10 finish in as many tournaments. The Idyllwild native’s drives averaged 303 yards into 69% of the fairways and…
Brendan Steele scored his best finish in one of the PGA Tour’s four major golf championships last week, turning in rounds of 70-72-69-68 to post a 1-under-par 279, which tied for ninth place. He notched an eagle and 13 birdies against 12 bogeys and a double over the four tournament rounds. The Idyllwild native’s drives…
