FREE GOLF BETTING TIPS

Scottie Scheffler
Rolex

Min Woo Lee
Callaway

Marco Penge
Mizuno

Ryan Gerard
Titleist

Stephan Jäeger
SJ_sedl_Golf

Tony Finau
@tonyfinaugolf

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.


My tips to Win:

Scottie Scheffler 7/2 – with PaddyPower – Needs to get his season back on track before The Masters and would love to win in his adopted home state. Has three runner-up finishes in this event

Min Woo Lee 25/1 – with PaddyPower – This weeks defending champion


Each-way tips:

Marco Penge 35/1 – with PaddyPower – Good to see him bounce back from missing the cut at The Players at the weekend and I expect him to challenge again this week

Ryan Gerard 55/1 – with PaddyPower – started the season with back-to-back runner-up finishes, had a Top 10 finish here last year


Outside tip:

Stephan Jäeger 80/1 – with PaddyPower – past champion of this event and had a Top 10 at the weekend

Tony Finau 100/1 – with PaddyPower – Another past champion of this event and defended with a runner-up finish


Longer odds:

Try Mackenzie Hughes 150/1 – with PaddyPower – four Top 20 finishes in his last five starts in this event

As always good luck