NAPA, Calif. (AP) -- By the end of the opening week of a new PGA Tour season, no one felt more vulnerable than Brendan Steele.
Winless since his rookie season five years ago, Steele was confronted with some bad memories of Silverado when he three-putted the 12th hole on Sunday in Safeway Open. It was the same hole where last year he began a sloppy stretch of five bogeys in six holes that sent him to a 76 and cost him a chance to win.
He was trying not to make mistakes last year. Now he had to try to make birdies.