Brendan Steele parred the first 14 holes Friday at the Barracuda in Reno before dropping an eight footer for his only birdie of the day. But at the par-5 18th, he followed a massive 374-yard drive by nestling his 210-yard approach within 12 feet of the pin, then sinking that putt for a 5-point eagle….
Stableford scoring is supposed to reward risk taking, so Brendan Steele combined nine birdies against five bogeys Thursday to score 13 points in the Stableford scoring of the Barracuda Championship in Reno to position himself in 5th place, only 2 points off the lead. The Montreux course is 200 feet higher than Brendan’s native Idyllwild,…
Brendan Steele put up a 2-under-par 73-69-69-71 — 282 to tie for 39th place at last week’s Quicken Loans National in Bethesda, Maryland. He missed a top-20 finish by three strokes. Somewhat characteristically, the longer the club, the better he did with it. The Idyllwild native led all players in the tournament in strokes gained…
Brendan Steele came back Friday with a 2-under-par 69 to shoot an even-par 142 on the Colonial Country Club course in Bethesda to make the 36-hole cut on the number. It was his 14th cut made in 18 events this season. As usual, he gained strokes on the field tee-to-green, but gave back strokes with…
Brendan Steele posted a 2-over-par 38-35 — 73 on the Congressional Country Club course at the Quicken Loans National tournament in Bethesda, Maryland, Thursday, to drop two shots below the projected cutline going into Friday’s play. Early in his round, two three-putts — one from 35 feet and another from 12 feet — contributed to…
Brendan Steele fired an even-par 70 in his third round Saturday to finish the day 2-over-par for the tournament in the U.S. Open at Oakmont, Pennsylvania. However, the leader, at 5 under par, and some 27 others are still out on the course in their third rounds. The Idyllwild native is currently in 12th place,…
If you follow native Idyllwilder Brendan Steele on computer or cell phone, you may be wondering why he is not in the field for the FedEx St. Jude Children’s Hospital Classic, as we earlier indicated. The reason is that after last Friday afternoon (when Brendan was required to sign up for this week’s St. Jude),…
Golf Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the Friday, May 20, monthly golf tournament, played at The Golf Club at Rancho California in Murrieta. A sunny spring day and the course in good shape offered good golfing weather. Barry Zander (pictured, course handicap 39) took first place with…
Brendan Steele stayed in Ohio after last week’s Memorial Tournament to play a qualifying round on Monday for this year’s $10 million U.S. Open. The Idyllwild native easily qualified by firing an 8-under-par 66-68 — 134 on the Wedgewood Golf & Country Club course in Powell, Ohio. The U.S. Open, one of the four “majors”…
Brendan Steele collected his seventh top-20 finish in 16 tournaments this 2016 season at Jack Nicklaus’ Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio, this past week. The native Idyllwilder carded a 10-under-par 65-67-75-71 — 278 to finish tied for 20th. He started out hot, standing second after Round 1 and tied for the lead after 36 holes,…
