导出博客文章NAPA, Calif. -- 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.And he would have to make them with a
conventional putter, having never won with anything but the long putter. Steele
switched to a short putter when the rule that outlawed the anchored stroke for
long putters first was proposed in 2014. He had done fine with it, though he
still had doubts he could make putts when they mattered.He made birdie with a
great lag on the par-5 16th. He rolled in an 18-footer for birdie on the 17th.
And he made a 7-footer on the 18th, his third straight birdie that carried him
to a 7-under 65 and -- finally -- another PGA Tour victory when Patton Kizzire
faltered and couldnt catch him.Thats really a sweet feeling to know that I can
do it under those circumstances, he said.Before long, he was headed to Malaysia,
the next stop on a long PGA Tour season that began in Napa Valley just three
weeks after it ended in Atlanta.The season-opening tournament that began with
promise ended in the rain.This was supposed to be the week where Tiger Woods
returned to the PGA Tour for the first time in 14 months. Instead, he
mysteriously withdrew just three days after he committed to play, saying his
game was vulnerable and not where it needed to be.The opener still had Phil
Mickelson, playing a domestic event in the fall for the first time in a decade,
and Mickelson still managed to have an influence with a surprisingly large
gallery for the dour weather over the last three days.Mickelson ended a third
straight year without a victory, though he tried to make it interesting on the
back nine with a pitch shot from the mud to 4 feet that offered the promise of a
late charge, only to miss the putt and too many other chances.He still tied for
eighth, raising his career total over 25 years on the PGA Tour to finishing in
the top 10 in one-third of his events.And he had an influence on
Steele.Mickelson took Steele and another rookie, Keegan Bradley, under his wing
in 2011 and played one of his fabled money games with them at The Players
Championship. The stakes werent high -- they were only rookies, so Mickelson set
the wager at a mere $50 -- but the idea was to teach them to play to win.Steele
already had won a month earlier at the Texas Open, and he shared the 54-hole
lead at the PGA Championship later that year in Atlanta, which Bradley wound up
winning in a playoff. Steele thinks now early success might have been too much,
too soon. So he sought out Mickelson over the last year and asked him for tips
on how to play down the stretch. Mickelsons answer was to play to win, and it
worked for Steele.He needed some help, typical of most tournaments.Starting the
final round four shots behind, he got in the mix and still was two shots behind
Kizzire, who looked like a winner when he stuffed his tee shot on the 11th hole
to 2 feet for a birdie. Kizzire started missing fairways. The only putts he made
were for par. He had birdie chances on the last three holes and missed out with
a poor tee shot (No. 16), a poor wedge (No. 17) and a 9-iron that missed the
green on No. 18.Kizzire wasnt the only player who left Silverado feeling as
though he had let one slip away.Paul Casey, Scott Piercy and Johnson Wagner all
had their chances. Wagner finished with eight straight pars. Casey and Piercy
dropped shots at the wrong time. Casey had his fourth straight finish in the top
4 dating to the FedEx Cup playoffs.So close, isnt it? Casey said. I mean, I
played great. I had another wonderful week.Steele now gets to go back to Augusta
National, where he hasnt been since 2012 and started to wonder if he would ever
play again.Mickelson headed into a three-month offseason. He wont show up again
until the California desert.The question leaving wine country was when anyone
would see Woods at a golf tournament. Woods said his next target was the Hero
World Challenge the first week of December in the Bahamas, an 18-man field of
low expectations and even less stress.Still unanswered is what happened to his
game in three days from the time he entered (Friday) until he withdrew (Monday).
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season and scored the winning touchdown with just over two minutes to play. The
New Westminster, B.C., native plowed three yards into the end zone for the last
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