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Houston Open 2026 Fantasy Golf Picks | Research, Course Breakdown, Guess The Odds

Pat Mayo Experience

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🗓️ 22 March 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Pat Mayo takes a deep dive into tournament and player stats with the Rabbit Hole Tool from Betsperts Golf making his early 2026 Houston Open Picks, highlighting stats that matter inside the model, and previewing the course.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, let's take a look at the rankings.

0:02.4

Goderup, Knapp, Shephler, Nikolai, Minwu, Adam Scott, Kirk Kittiyama, the Gala, Brooks, Pierce, and Kootie. That's the top 10, which falls completely in line with exactly with what we looked at throughout the course of the show. We're on Goderup, Nikolai, Yala Marajou, Kudi, and Kidayama. We're kind of the big five that popped up outside of the Scotty Sheffler tier. Obviously Minwoo was the winner last year. Going down past that, Fox, Gerard, Rogers, Keith Mitchell, Wyndham Clark was another one that we looked at. Pendrith was another one that we looked at and dug into their stats a little bit. Thorbjornson's there. Adrian Dumont de Chassell. Pops up on the list again. Yellow Marajou is number 34. And a lot of that, frankly, is just due to lack of rounds. I'm surprised Celinda didn't make this list any higher. Obviously, you can jump around and hit the time codes and go to the in-depth player research.

1:13.9

He comes in 76th on this list. I still like Salinda a lot, having a pretty good week at the Valspar as well. Good run in this tournament a year ago. But again, if we're sorting by ball speed, which we want to do this week, at least I hope we want to do this week, because that's what I'm looking at a lot, pot-keeter would be the other one that you want to go look at and just hope it's one of those weeks,

1:18.0

where the rest of his game kind of shows up along with the driver.

1:23.2

And obviously, Marco Penge, hopefully he gets buried in a lot of optimizers and everything,

1:28.4

because he is someone that you're going to want to use and bet at the Houston Open.

1:30.7

At Mayo Experience.

1:39.7

Welcome to the Pat Mayo Experience, Houston Open.

1:42.3

Research picks the first look breaking down the field. If you want to jump around to the different parts like building the model, what this course is all about the field, always hit the time codes for that, smash like and sub to the channel. And I want to know from you, I'm starting to build out my master's content for the week. I have the shows that are most definitely going to be there. But I started off the players championship with the player by player preview.

2:01.2

I want to know, is that something you guys liked? Or if there's a different version of that show,

2:04.8

or just a completely different show about Augusta National, about the Masters that you guys

2:09.7

would like to see, because I'm completely open to it. I love doing Masters content and something

2:14.0

new and fresh that simply I have not thought of would be very helpful if you guys have any ideas. So dump those down in the comment section. Give me your early winner for Houston as well because it's a pretty stacked field. What we're looking here, Scotty returns as he does every single year. He's been runner up each of the past two seasons. He made quite a charge at Min Woo. Lee last year. Min Woo is back as well. Ben Griffin, the Hoygard's, Kurt Kittiyama, Sam Burns, Knapp is back, Godderup, Shane Lowry, Fowler Thorbjornson, Dave Pendrith, Ryan Gerard, Adam Scott, Piss and Cootty, like Cootty this way. I like Cody every week in fairness. So hit the Gallo, Wyndham Clark, and Brooks Kepka, the guy that helped actually redesign this course. Brooks made a run on Saturday at Valspar. It was looking like the Red Sea was parting for Brooks. He got it to seven under on the front nine. Sung Jay wasn't playing poorly out of the gates, but he wasn't pulling away from anyone. And then on the back nine, he made a horrible dry, like two horrible drives really sunk him on the back. But he lipped out two birdie putts and left another one, like, hanging on the edge. He even gave it the 22nd weight, and it wouldn't fall. Just three of those little one millimeter to the left or right, and it could have been looking a lot different for Brooks. It's not over by the time I'm doing this. Maybe he shot nine under today and ended up winning. I'm not counting on that. My best look right now with Sungay in the lead and what this leaderboard looks like with Chandler Blanche and David Lipsky, Miss Lippey up there. Good to see Miss Lippey, putting the cream on her fair, putting the glue on her face,

4:00.3

rising on the top of leaderboards and Innesbrook. But A.J. Youert, like beating Corey Connors as low Canadian for 16 to 1 is like my best look going into Sunday. So back-to-back bad weeks for me. Hopefully it comes through for Jeff and he can have back-to-back good weeks and the show continues to propel itself forward, but I can't imagine anyone is looking at this leaderboard being like,

4:14.3

man, I'm winning all the money this week. Unless you just jumped on Sung-J did not see that one coming. I know that Buckel and I discussed him whether or not he could have that rebound. It just didn't seem like it would happen this quickly. and really outside of the first day when he hit everything close and made every single punt when he didn't hit it close, he's having a pretty like average week.

4:18.3

That one round, you need that one low round at Valspar every single year if you're going to

4:22.9

separate from the leaderboard. And that's what he's been doing. So far, Will Zalotaurus is back

4:27.6

in the field in Houston this week. It is his first tournament start technically

4:31.9

since the farmers at the end of January. If you remember, he hasn't been in the signature events.

4:37.9

He didn't qualify for the players. And obviously he took a week off for Valspar. He was in the

4:42.3

cognizant, but withdrew before his tea time, thus leaving everyone in the lurch who used him on

4:47.1

draft kings that wasn't able to swap him out because it happened after the first tee shot of the tournament had been hit, that it doesn't seem like it's been almost six weeks, seven weeks since we've seen Zellotaurus. But here he is. He's back at this course, which is a municipal course, the Memorial Park Golf Club in Houston. One of my favorite courses

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