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<\/p>\n2026 Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open Course<\/p>\n
Greens: Poa trivialis overseed<\/p>\n
Number of Sand Bunkers: 21<\/p>\n
Number of Holes Water is in Play: 4<\/p>\n
Average Green Size: 7,000 sq. ft.<\/p>\n
COURSE<\/p>\n
Par 3\u2019s (5): Average Distance – 192 yards<\/p>\n
Two have a bogey rate that is higher than the birdie rate, highlighted by #11 (20.2% bogey and 6.1% birdie)<\/p>\n
Min Woo: 3 birdies and 0 bogeys on the Par 3\u2019s over the final 3 rounds<\/p>\n
Par 4\u2019s (10): Average Distance – 469 yards<\/p>\n
Three holes come with a bogey rate north of 21% and they are all Par 4\u2019s (Holes 1-4-14)<\/p>\n
Min Woo: Didn\u2019t bogey a Par 4 over the weekend (multiple Par 4 bogeys in Rounds 1 and 2)<\/p>\n
Par 5\u2019s (3): Average Distance – 610 yards<\/p>\n
All three have an eagle rate 1-2% and two come with a sub-9% bogey rate<\/p>\n
Min Woo: Birdied Hole #3 all four days, brought in a sweat with a bogey on #16 Sunday<\/p>\n
DFS Streak<\/p>\n
Is this the course where this advantage is the greatest? It\u2019s on the short list — Holes 1 and 18 are two of the four toughest on the course and that makes playing it backwards a tough sell. When starting on the front, you get access to Holes 8-9-10, all of which play easier than course average.<\/p>\n
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2026 Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open Past Winners<\/p>\n
2025: Min Woo Lee -20 (One clear of Scottie Scheffler and Gary Woodland)<\/p>\n
2024: Stephen Jaeger -12 (one clear of five golfers, including Tony Finau and Scottie Scheffler)<\/p>\n
(Played in November)<\/p>\n
2022: Tony Finau -16 (four clear of Tyson Alexander)<\/p>\n
2021: Jason Kokrak -10 (two clear of Kevin Tway and Scottie Scheffler)<\/p>\n
WINNERS NOTES<\/p>\n
2025: Min Woo Lee (+3000, T-3rd favorite) beats Scottie Scheffler and Gary Woodland by 1<\/p>\n
Held a 5 shot lead over Scheffler and 6 over Woodland entering Sunday<\/p>\n
8 of the top 9 finishers gained Prox 200+<\/p>\n
2024: Stephan Jaeger (+5000) beats Scottie Scheffler Tony FInau, Thomas Detry, and Alejandro Tosti by 1<\/p>\n
Five of the top six finishers gained Prox 150-175 (it was the only bucket in which Jaeger gained on approach)<\/p>\n
Low bunker count and low impact … just 3 of the top 16 finishers gained Sand Saves on the field for the week<\/p>\n
2023: No Event<\/p>\n
2022: Tony Finau (+1600, T-3rd favorite) beats Tyson Alexander by 2<\/p>\n
The top 6 finishers all gained putting from 5-10 AND from 10-15 feet<\/p>\n
Finau was the second best putter for the week and Ben Taylor was third best (finished third on the final leaderboard)<\/p>\n
2021: Jason Kokrak (+6000) beats Scottie Scheffler and Kevin Tway by 2<\/p>\n
66-65 weekend for Kokrak was 10 shots better than Tway and 7 better than Scheffler<\/p>\n
6 picked up 5+ strokes on the green, their finishes: 1-2-4-5-29 (Kelly Kraft being the outlier and he finished 29th despite losing 5.6 strokes T2G)<\/p>\n
FIRST ROUND LEADERS<\/p>\n
2025<\/p>\n
65: Taylor Pendrith (PM), Alejandro Tosti (AM), Ryan Gerard (AM), Keith Mitchell (PM), Taylor Dickson (PM)<\/p>\n
2024<\/p>\n
64: Taylor Moore (AM), William Furr (PM)<\/p>\n
2022<\/p>\n
65: Tony Finau (PM), Alex Noren (AM), Aaron Wise (AM)<\/p>\n
2021<\/p>\n
65: Martin Trainer (PM), Russell Henley (AM), Luke List (PM), Marc Leishman (AM), Taylor Gooch (AM)<\/p>\n
2026 Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open Notes<\/p>\n
A 2024 May windstorm (a derecho, per meteorology terms) damaged more than 100 trees and then Hurricane Beryl in July which dropped 13\u201d-plus of rain and damaged 100 more trees. This led to the lowest scoring ever in this event in 2025.<\/p>\n
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Before 2025, there had not been an event at Memorial Park where the average score was below par. Last year\u2019s extra scoring could be attributed to many things: Stronger field, lower wind, those lack of tree, or simply an outlier. If it resembles 2025, you\u2019ll want the guys who swing the club the hardest. Five of the Top 7 on the leaderboard in 2025 were tops in ball speed.<\/p>\n
The overseed now provides a much tighter playing surface than the bermudagrass did when this event had previously been held run the swing season. This will highlight the penal green surrounds, while shorter rough gives opportunity for aggressive approach shots to the green.<\/p>\n
No. 17 green was moved 30 yards further back and two bunkers were added to the left of the green for 2024. Depending on the tee box, it is drivable.<\/p>\n
Average fairway widths in landing areas are 30-40 yards yet one of the lower accuracy rates of any course. The three-year average: 55%<\/p>\n
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Memorial Park is the third longest course played on TOUR this season and it is only Par 70. There are five Par 4s 490 yards or longer. They all play over par and are five of the six toughest holes on the course.<\/p>\n
Tom Doak did a complete renovation of the course in 2019 (started in January and the course re-opened in November). Brooks Koepka assisted. The renovation and redesign brought ravines and water into play and reduced the number of bunkers from 54 to 19. Three of the bunkers are surrounding the 18th green.<\/p>\n
Tons of run off areas and false fronts on a lot of greens. Many greens elevated as well. While most course have thicker rough surrounding the putting surfaces, Memorial Park has a lot of shaved off areas and very low cut rough across the course. The average PGA TOUR Event only sees about 40% of around the green shots from short grass, it\u2019s 67% at Memorial Park.<\/p>\n
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2026 Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open Picks<\/p>\nChris Gotterup \u2014 Gotterup sits 11th in the field in ball speed, has crushed long Par 4s all season, and has produced a far more efficient scrambling rate on closely mown surfaces than out of thicker rough. Probably won\u2019t get away with losing strokes putting and winning like he did in Phoenix, but he won\u2019t have to gain as many as most to find himself near the top of the leaderboard.<\/p>\n
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Margo Penge \u2014 Finally produced a week in America where he flashed his upside at Valspar. Now he gets a course which fits his bomb, gauge, and putt profile. He finally gained with his irons at Copperhead, if he can keep that rolling, he\u2019ll be a threat at Memorial Park.<\/p>\n
Aldrich Potgiter \u2014 Look, if any part of his game beyond the driver shows up, he\u2019s plenty live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open Pat Mayo takes a deep dive into tournament and player stats with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[84327,56,58,57,28604,28601,84324,84330,9396,84328,84329,84326,84325],"class_list":["post-215912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-chris-gotterup","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-open","tag-memorial-park","tag-min-woo-lee","tag-rickie-fowler","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-stephan-jaeger","tag-taylor-pendrith","tag-tony-finau","tag-valero-texas-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}