What's up, guys, Rick here with your preview for this week's Houston Open, where we will use data, logic, and reason to break down the golf course, the players that will play on said golf course and everything else that we can think about for this week.

Let's just not waste any more time and jump right into it.

Okay, let's start with the golf course Memorial Park.

It is, this event has had

kind of an interesting recent history. Obviously, the Houston Open goes back for, I mean,

decades, but just recently Memorial Park, which is a municipal, it's a public course. You can play it.

Last time I checked, it was like a $50 tea time, which is great. It was redesigned in 2019.

Tom Doke, Brooks Kepka, remember that.

And we've played three years of this event since they moved it back to Memorial Park

Post redesign.

Now, the kind of the bigger thing for this week is we're playing it in March.

If you're not aware, it's March.

This event was normally played during the swing season, which was like a November or

October date. And now that we've gone back to the, you know, the year long, the year,

calendar year season or whatever they want to call it, it's now in March. So I pulled up the satellite imagery. So what you're looking at

right now is, this is satellite imagery from last month. It's from February. You can actually

see the grandstands are already, you know,

almost complete or going up and all that stuff. Remember, it's a municipal golf course, right?

There is a lot of acreage of rough here. There's not a lot of penalty for missing wide.

Yes, there are some tree lined-ish holes, not necessarily tree-line, but maybe you can get into some trouble.

But they're not always in play for the PGA professionals.

This is a pretty wide-open golf course.

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