If this week’s stop on the PGA Tour doesn’t ring a bell there’s a reason. The Texas Children’s Houston Open skipped the rotation last season and is back for the first time since November 2022 with Tony Finau the defending champion. Since the last edition, however, Scottie Scheffler has become all the rage and the world’s top ranked player opened with the shortest odds I’ve ever seen for a Tour event. There’s good reason for that with Scheffler in a zone following wins in his last two starts. He’s finished inside the top 20 in every start this season and has a history at Memorial Park with back-to-back top 10s as well as a share of the course record. Runner-up to Scheffler at TPC Sawgrass, Wyndham Clark opened as the second favorite with the rest of the field boasting odds of 20/1 or higher. Visit BookMaker.eu for a complete list of betting odds when you’re ready to place a wager.
Texas Children’s Houston Open Betting Odds
Scottie Scheffler +250
Wyndham Clark +1450
Sahith Theegala +2000
Will Zalatoris +2050
Si Woo Kim +2850
Jason Day +2850
Tony Finau +3047
Keith Mitchell +3750
Alex Noren +4050
Stephan Jaeger +4450
Beau Hossler +5050
Kurt Kitayama +5550
Taylor Moore +5850
Tom Hoge +6050
Aaron Rai +6050
Billy Horschel +6050
Patrick Rodgers +6050
Mackenzie Hughes +6050
Doug Ghim +6550
Jake Knapp +7050
Thorbjorn Olesen +8051
Akshay Bhatia +8051
Thomas Detry +8051
Ben Griffin +9051
Luke List +9051
Taylor Montgomery +9051
Davis Thompson +9051
K.H. Lee +9051
Joel Dahmen +9051
Adam Svensson +9051
Odds Analysis
Wyndham Clark +1450
There’s little value backing Scheffler at such a low price so I might as well take the next best option – on the betting board and on the course. In his last two starts the only golfer better than Clark is Scheffler, and Clark was an eyelash away from sending THE PLAYERS to extra holes. Just a thought, but maybe Clark should enter events that Scheffler isn’t playing and we’d be talking about him more right now. Not that there’s anything bad to say about Clark, who is having a marvelous season that includes a win at Pebble Beach in February.
Jason Day +2850
Day is overlooked in all that’s going on between the two favorites. Combine strong form with a course history and the Aussie is waiting to pounce should the faves stumble. Day has three top 10s on his season resume and was consistent if not great his last two starts, making the cut but finishing well off the pace. He has a T7 and T16 at Memorial Park and his game is a good fit for the layout.
Tony Finau +3047
The fifth of Finau’s six career Tour victories was at Memorial Park in 2022 as part of a torrid stretch that saw him win three times in seven starts at that time. To say he dominated last time here is an understatement. After an opening 65 Finau carded a course record tying 62 and led by as many as eight swings on Sunday. He hasn’t enjoyed that kind of success in 2024 but he’s still as consistent as they get on Tour with five top 20s, including a T6 at the Farmers Insurance Open. A return to Memorial Park could be the spark Finau needs.
Alex Noren +4050
I’ll venture a little further down the odds board with my next two picks finding value in both. Noren covers plenty of the necessities to be successful at Memorial Park ranking among the top 10 in serviceable metrics. He also enters on a hot streak playing the weekend in all six starts boasting a T9 and T19 in his last two outings. While no one came close to Finau in the most recent edition, Noren was lingering in the top 5.
Aaron Rai +6050
The course is straightforward and Rai has taken a direct path to his career success. There isn’t much to suggest a victory with a MC last week and only one finish inside the top 20 this season leaving him well down the odds board, but Rai has excelled at Memorial Park earning a T7 last time and finishing among the top 20 the year before. He’s an exceptional ball-striker that can take advantage of a course with few obstacles. And, as the old saying goes, you never know.
Course: Memorial Park Golf Course – 7,435 yards, Par 70
A municipal course more than a century old, Memorial Park underwent a major facelift in 2019 when it welcomed back the PGA Tour after nearly 60 years. At over 7,400 yards the track is lengthy, but being a municipal course it offers little resistance to the pros. The recent redesign saw the removal of bunkers, trees and water. The thought was to make it playable for the public while still presenting enough of a challenge for the pros. Length and multi-tiered greens are the biggest defenses the course has and that shouldn’t be too much of a problem for the field. Unfamiliar, bumpy greens require accuracy on approach, but distance off the tee will shrink the layout for big hitters. In 2022 Finau matched Scheffler’s course record 62 on his way to a 4-shot victory with a scoring record 264.
TV Coverage: Golf Channel, NBC
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