The Tour is at Houston this week for the 72nd Houston Open.
The Houston Open changed into subsidized through Shell because 1992, however ended its sponsorship final yr. The Tour is currently searching out a new sponsorship.
The occasion is held at the Golf Club of Houston, previously referred to as the Redstone Golf Club. GC of Houston changed into constructed in 2003 and designed by way of Rees Jones and David Toms. It follows a Rees Jones type of design?Very lengthy (7,422 yards), pretty huge open and one drive-able par-4 (#12).
A couple of weeks in the past I made this tweet on designers:
My List for Golf Course designers:
The BEST: Tillinghast
The WORST: The Shark
Most OVERRATED: Raynor
Most UNDERRATED: Garl
Aged the BEST: Willie Park
Aged the WORST: Dye ? Hunt Golf Analytics (@Richie3Jack) March sixteen, 2018
I did get a few humans putting Rees Jones as ?The worst? Or ?Maximum hyped up.? Personally, I?M not a large lover of Rees Jones designs, but I don?T suppose they may be anywhere near the worst. They can be a bit dull, but I might as an alternative take a touch uninteresting than a bunch of gimmicky holes or the fashion designer that designs a group of bad holes simply so they can layout 1 or 2 lovely holes. Or the clothier that creates a torture chamber or the clothier has 0 clue about how to create a pleasing ebb and glide to their design.
The preferred consensus I?Ve received on Tour is that GC of Houston is reasonably nicely obtained. It does have a tendency to prefer the long hitters as it?S so open and there?S in reality no rough at the path. But a mid-variety strength player can win here as nicely.
What I also like approximately GC of Houston is that it?S a excellent warmup for the Masters the following week as the courses have that similarities of being long, extensive open and truely no tough on the course. Also, the 18th is the very last critical hole on the route and it gives for some exhilaration on Sunday.
PROJECTED WINNING SCORE: -16
3JACK?S FAVORITES
Justin Rose 1,000
Daniel Berger 2,500
Rafa Cabrera Bello 3,000
Byeong Hun An four,000
3JACK?S DARK HORSE PICKS
Charles Howell III 5,000
Thomas Pieters 5,000
Jamie Lovemark 6,000
JB Holmes 7,000
Rory Sabbatini 10,000
Corey Conners 12,500
3JACK
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