Scottie Scheffler has withdrawn from this week\u2019s Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open \u2013 and it\u2019s great news.<\/p>\n
Though a reason wasn\u2019t immediately provided by the PGA Tour, Golf Channel has confirmed that the reason was not injury-related but rather the imminent birth of Scheffler\u2019s second child.<\/p>\n
While the timing is not ideal for Houston Open organizers, the arrival comes ahead of the Masters, which begins in two weeks. Scheffler, a two-time green jacket winner, was most recently T-22 at The Players two Sundays ago.<\/p>\n
Scheffler and his wife, Meredith, welcomed their first child, son Bennett, on May 8, 2024, a few weeks after Scheffler\u2019s second Masters victory and days before the 2024 PGA Championship. He also won the RBC Heritage the week after that Masters and didn\u2019t miss any tournaments he was slated to play.<\/p>\n
Matt Kuchar replaces the world No. 1 in the field at Memorial Park, while Justin Lower becomes the new first alternate. Scheffler\u2019s WD is the seventh for the Houston Open since Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler has withdrawn from this week\u2019s Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open \u2013 and it\u2019s great news. Though a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-542730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}