With only two regular events left on the 2022 calendar, the PGA Tour heads north from Mexico to Memorial Park Golf Course and the Houston Open. One of the country\u2019s best public, municipal courses, Memorial Park is a long par 70 that measures 7,412 yards and can trace its origins back to 1912.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is a wall-to-wall bermudagrass track with five par 3s and three par 5s. Players can expect firm and fast conditions with unique green complexes that feature plenty of undulations and short-grass runoffs with false fronts. Playing almost an entire stroke over par after its first two editions here, Memorial Park emphasizes the importance of a well-rounded game. As Marc Leishman quipped last year, \u201cI think what this whole golf course does is reward good shots and punish bad shots.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coming off a 3rd place finish and Sunday round of 62 at Mayakoba, Scottie Scheffler headlines the field this week. Now ranked 2nd in the world behind Rory McIlroy, Scheffler can regain the world No. 1 position with a win in Houston where he finished 2nd last year. Other top-ranked players in the field include Hideki Matsuyama, Sam Burns, Tony Finau, and last week\u2019s winner in Mayakoba, Russell Henley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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With Memorial Park averaging 0.92 strokes over par and playing as the 4th toughest non-major course on Tour, one of the first areas I am analyzing this week is past player performance on other difficult scoring courses. The last two winners at this event, Jason Kokrak and Carlos Ortiz, had a tendency to play well above their baseline on tougher courses. To put it simply, Memorial Park is a beast of a course. Not only does it have one fewer par-5 scoring hole than most layouts, but the three par-5s it has rank as the toughest on Tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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