UC Riverside

Current PGA golfer Brendan Steele led the UC Riverside Men's Golf Team to the athletics department's first two Big West Conference Championships, as the Highlanders were named co-Champions in 2004, and won the conference title outright in 2005.
 
Brendan earned All-Big West accolades in each of his four seasons with a second-team nod as a freshman, and First-Team honors in each of his last three years with the program. He was also an All-Big West Academic honoree as a junior and senior, and twice was named Big West Golfer of the Month.
 
As a senior, Brendan became the first and only member of the Highlanders to date during their Big West era to shoot under par for the entire season (71.5), beating his own record by nearly three-quarters of a stroke.
 
He also owns nearly every other record in the program's Division I history including, career scoring average (72.27), single-season (3 in 2001-02) and career tournament wins (5), single-season (21 in 2003-04) and career rounds of par or better (69), and singles-season (86.6% in 2003-04) and career finish percentage (82.9%). His career scoring average is nearly a full stroke better than his nearest UC Riverside competitor.
 
Brendan won his first PGA title in 2011, and a year ago, recorded a top-50 finish in the Fed Ex Cup Standings.