{"id":226918,"date":"2026-03-30T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/226918\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:07:13","slug":"topekas-gary-woodland-back-on-top-in-houston-return-from-brain-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/226918\/","title":{"rendered":"Topeka\u2019s Gary Woodland back on top in Houston, return from brain surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Houston, Texas (WIBW) &#8211; Topeka native Gary Woodland won the Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open on Sunday &#8212; his first championship since 2019. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 41-year-old American closed with a dominant performance at Memorial Park, finishing at 21-under par and winning by five shots. The victory marked Woodland\u2019s fifth career PGA Tour title and first since the 2919 U.S. Open. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Woodland\u2019s win comes after a long and difficult recovery from surgery to remove a brain lesion, followed by ongoing struggles with anxiety and PTSD. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The win also secures Woodland a return to one of golf\u2019s biggest stages, The Masters, next month at Augusta National. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston, Texas (WIBW) &#8211; Topeka native Gary Woodland won the Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open on Sunday &#8212; his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[87787,1170,86550,56,58,57,28604,9395,87861,55006,55007],"class_list":{"0":"post-226918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-brain-surgery","9":"tag-championship","10":"tag-gary-woodland","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-headlines","13":"tag-houston-news","14":"tag-houston-open","15":"tag-pga","16":"tag-topeka","17":"tag-wibw","18":"tag-wibw-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226918","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=226918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}