Min Woo Lee -2
Gary Woodland -19
Scottie Scheffler -19
Sami Välimäki -17
Wyndham Clark -15
Taylor Pendrith -15
Rory McIlroy -15
Alejandro Tosti -15
Ryan Gerard -14
Mackenzie Hughes -13
Min Woo Lee 4/9
Scottie Scheffler 9/2
Alejandro Tosti 16/1
Ryan Fox 25/1
Ryan Gerard 33/1
Keith Mitchell 50/1
Gary Woodland 66/1
Jesper Svensson 66/1
Rory McIlroy 66/1
Davis Thompson 80/1
Taylor Pendrith 80/1
Trey Mullinax 80/1
Jake Knapp 125/1
Nico Echavarria 125/1
Wyndham Clark 125/1
Kurt Kitayama 200/1
Stephan Jäeger 200/1
Kevin Yu 250/1
Mackenzie Hughes 250/1
Isaiah Salinda 300/1
Hayden Springer 400/1
William Mouw 400/1
Harris English 500/1
Sami Välimäki 500/1
Adam Hadwin 750/1
Jackson Suber 750/1
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The PGA Tour now moves from Florida to Texas and a new/old venue. This will be a new venue to the current tour players, but it was home to the Houston Open from 1951 to 1963. Memorial Park Golf Course is known as one of the best municipal courses in America, designed by John Bredemus the course was originally a 9-hole course with sand greens, built near the hospital at Camp Logan for use by convalescent soldiers.
In 1994, on behalf of Mayor Bob Lanier, Houston Park Board member Nancy Reynolds began a campaign to restore the golf course and preserve its historical quality while allowing for modern maintenance methods to help sustain the courses future. In 1995, the newly renovated 600-acre course opened with a floodlit driving range, putting and chipping greens, and a new clubhouse.
The course underwent a further redesign undertaken by Tom Doak’s Renaissance Golf Design firm at a cost of $13.5-million, the renovations were completed in November 2019 ahead of the PGA Tour's planned return to Memorial Park for this week’s Houston Open.
The redesign included sand capping fairways, installing additional drainage, and the irrigation pond was tripled in size, with the excavated material used to form additional contouring around the course. Eight of the original greens were moved, the par five 8th was lengthened, and the par four 9th was altered from a par four to a par three. The par five 15th is now a driveable par four and the 16th has been extended to a par five. Tees and fairways on the front nine were repositioned to bring the ravines into play from the 2nd through to the 7th holes and additional water hazards were incorporated into the design to strength the home stretch of holes, starting at the short 15th.
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My tips to Win:
Two runner-up finishes here in the last three shows Scottie Scheffler 9/2 with AKBets likes teeing it up here and would love to win won of his university state opens. It feels like it has been a bad start to the year for Scottie, but he has actually not been outside the Top 25 in his five starts and has three Top 11 finishes in that run
Unilke Rory McIlroy 15/2 with QuinnBet who has gotten off to a flying start, with two wins from his four starts and has not been outside the Top 20. I think we are all waiting to see a Rory/Scottie final round and we could get that this week
Having said that I am sure Aaron Rai 30/1 with AKBets will have something to say about that. The Englishman has two seventh-place finishes from his two starts in this event and comes into this week on the back of three straight Top 15 finishes, which includes his fourth-place finish at the Mexico Open
Each-way tips:
Defending his title in this event last year Tony Finau 40/1 with AKBets missed out making the play-off by a shot in his attempt to make it back-to-back wins. It has been a strange year for Tony with three Top 15 finishes including his Tops 5 at the Genesis Invitational, but he has also missed three cuts. But I think being back here may just get his season back on track
This week's defending champion is Stephan Jδeger 45/1 with AKBets who has been threatening all year to challenge, but a couple of bad swings during a round and it seems to get away from him. Stephan had a Top 10 the year before his win and he will want to put up a good defence of his title this week
After his win earlier in the year it is understandable that Thomas Detry 55/1 with BetVictor performances took a dip. And I will be the first to admit I was surprised when he won and especially in the manor he did. Thomas has been in so many winning positions only to throw them away. But the lad is a great golfer and with that win it could be the start of something, Detry had a runner-up finish here last year and he could feel there is unfinished business here this week
