Blog#227 Results Texas Children’s Houston Open March 27-30 2025

Blog#227 Results Texas Children’s Houston Open March 27-30 2025

Golf Channel commentator reported that the top players will be most interested in competing for the win, and not as a practice RD testing shots in preparation for the Masters. I disagree and it will be interesting to see how the top players approach their rounds. Greens are elevated and many shots run off.

ROUND 1 Pouring rain 75* wind gusts up to 20MPH.

1 Alejandro Tosti-5 65 Bogie free, cut #82 at Players, Hovland was 116. FINISH 5-15

1 Keith Mitchell-5 65 Eagles 16 ties for lead, 1 last week finished 57. FINISH 18-10

1 T Pendrith-5 65 One bogie 6 birdies. FINISH 5-15

1 Ryan Gerard-5 65 Two bogies 7 birdies, bogies his last 2 holes. FINISH 9-14

3 Min Woo Lee-4 66 Three bogies 7 birdies, only favorite in top 10. FINISH Wins-20

5 Eric Cole-4 66 Bogies 1st hole then 3 straight birdies and 2 more. FINISH 15-5

5 Rasmus Hojgaard-4 66 Birdies #2 eagle on #3 then 2DBs 5 birdies. FINISH 32-8

13 Scottie Scheffler-3 67Bogie free RD. FINISH 2-19

18 Jake Knapp-2 68 Bogies first 2 holes then 3 more with 7 birdies. FINISH 27-9

36 Gary Woodland-1 69 Three bogies 4 birdies. FINISH 2-19

57 Rory McIlroy E 70 Two birdies 2 bogies. FINISH 15-5

57 Saheeth Thegala E One DB 1 bogie 3. Birdies, DB’s kill this guy! FINISH 67-1

89 JJ Spahn+1 71 Bounced back with 67 only 1 bogie in RD 2 but missed cut.

ROUND 2 Weather better 78* partly sunny little wind AM, rain & T Storms in PM

caused stoppage of play at 4 PM EST, resumes 6PM EST and ends 8:30PM EST.

1 Scottie Scheffler-11 62 Birdies 1st 2 holes then 6 more for 62 tying course record.

2 Taylor Pendrith-10 65 Bogies 1st hole then 6 birdies.

2 Ryan Gerard-10 65 Bogie free, FedX82 OWGR 173, made 7 of 8 cuts this year.

2 Min Woo Lee-10 64 Two bogies 8 birdies.

5 Jackson Suber-8 66 One bogie 5 birdies.

9 Eric Cole-7 67 Birdies 1st hole, then 2 more, 0 bogies.

9 Rasmus Højgaard-7 67 Bogie free RD, 3 birdies, no bogies but 2 DBs in 2 RDs.

9 Gary Woodland-7 64 Five birdies in a row #4 to 8, up 32 spots.

16 Stephen Jaeger-6 64 Bogie free with 6 birdies, up 48 spots.

33 Rory McIlroy-4 66 Birdies 15,16 & 17to make cut.

ROUND 3 Starts at 11AM EST 73 to 87* no rain

Min Woo Lee-17 63 Five birdies 0 bogies 1st 10 holes then 2 more birdies.

2 Alejandro Tosti-13 68 Two bogies with 7 birdies but will have 4 bogies on RD 4.

3 Scottie Scheffler-12 69 His worse RD of tournament with 2 bogies.

6 Gary Woodand-1162 Low Rd of the day, best RD since his return from brain cancer.

FINAL ROUND

1 Min Woo Lee-20 67 Led by 5 thru 13, in water on 16 for bogie, pars 17&18. $1.7M

2 Scheffler-19 63 Four straight birdies 13 to 16 cuts lead to 1, pars 17&18. $846K

2 Gary Woodland-19 62 One eagle one bogie 7 birdies one on 18 to tie for 2nd. $846K

5 Rory McIlroy-15 64 Improves every RD, 70, 66, 65, 64, tune up for Masters. $338K

COMMENTARY

After the 1st RD Lee was #5-4 and Scheffler was #13-3, there were 0 favorites in the top 12.

In Rd 2 Scheffler took the lead-11 with a record tying 62 but Woo was only 1 shot behind.

Lee won the tournament in the 3rd RD when he shot 63 to Scheffer’s 69 and had a 5 stroke lead on Scheffler going into the final RD. This held up until hole #14 when Scheffler got his 2nd of 4 straight birdies to pull within 1 with 2 holes to play. However both Scheffler and Lee pars both and Lee gets his first PGA win despite blowing a 5 stroke lead on the last 5 holes.