The two best players in the world are in the field for this week’s Texas Children’s Houston Open, which releases Thursday at the Memorial Park Golf Course.
It also represents the last opportunity for players to serve automatic places for next month’s champion through the official world golting, so there is plenty of the line in Texas this week.
Our golf experts preview the event and give their favorite poppams along with the best bets to win this week.
Texas Children’s Houston Open
Location: Memorial Park Golf Course (par 70, 7 475 meters)
Bag: $ 9.5 million (winners: $ 1.71 million)
Defending Master: Stephan Jaeger
FedExcup Leader: Rory Mcilroy
How to follow
TV: Thursday-Friday: 16-17 et (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday: 13-3 (Golf Channel), 15-16 (NBC/Peacock)
Streaming (ESPN+): Thursday-Friday: 20:15 to 19:00 et; Saturday-Sunday: 11-18 et et et a
X: @Tchouopen
Propval
-Tony Finau to beat JJ Spaun (-110 at Draftkings): Spaun has a couple of runners during the last three starters-inclusive of the players-as he has risen to the 27th world rankings. At the same time, Finau comes from a MC and a T36 during the last two starters. But the 2022 champion in Houston has a strong track record in Memorial Park, where he and Scheffler are the only players with several top-5 finish.
-Jason Day Top 30 Finish (+110 on Berivers): As a standard field event, the field is not full of selection names in addition to Scheffler and Mcilroy. Day published a T8 on Bay Hill before retiring from the players due to illness. He finished T50 on Genesis, but it was against a much deeper field.
-Stephan Jaeger Top German (+110 at Draftkings): Jaeger obviously feels comfortable at Memorial Park, and he has hung around the first page of the top list several times this year already. Matthias Schmid (+280) cannot be discounted after a T6 in Puerto Rico and a T28 last week, but he also has five missed cuts in nine starts this year. The other two in this prop are Jeremy Paul (+330) and Thomas Rosenmuler (+650). Paul finished T22 at Valspar, where Rosenmueller missed his fourth cut in the last six events.
2025 Prop Pick Record: 12-18-1
Best bets
-Scottie Scheffler (+350 at Draftkings) finished a shot from the pace here last year and is looking for his first victory in 2025. He leads the field with 13 percent of all the money that invested the support Scheffler to snap his “drought” this week.
-Rery Mcilroy (+650) has already won twice in 2025 but debuts at Memorial Park. The Northern Irishman who claims that a top-5 finish this week has been the most popular top-5 game in the book.
-Tony Finau (+3000) won the event 2022 and band for others last year.
-My Woo Lee (+3500) has been a popular longshot and has drawn 7 percent of the total money-which corresponds to Mcilroy’s support from the public. Lee comes from a T20 on the players, where he was stuck in the mix until a 78 on Saturday.
-Stephan Jaeger (+4500) has already won at Memorial Park and has a T6 in Mexico and a T20 on the players among his last four starts.
-Alex Smalley (+5500) has not yet won on the tour but has knocked on the door with six T21 or better finish in its last eight starts. The other two were MCS.
Notes
-Memorial park will host the event for the fifth year in a row.
-The field includes 20 of the 50 best players in the official world gol. The 50 best players in Owgr after this week who are not otherwise exempt will serve places in next month’s champion. In the field this week is No. 52 Michael Kim, No. 53 Ben Griffin, No. 61 Eric Cole and No. 66 Si Woo Kim.
-Houston native Matthew Riedel will make his event debut as a PGA Tour beginner. It is his seventh start since he served his card with a T4 at last year’s Q school, with his best finish so far a T26 in Puerto Rico.
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