Shell/Houston Open and the data sheet updated

I finally got off my butt, rather, I finally had time to do it. Go make your trades. There are still a few jems out there.

Here is a preview article for this weekend:

The Houston stop has a long history on the PGA Tour with tournaments held in the Houston area as early as 1922. The tournament has been contested on a number of different courses and is on its second change in four years. The event ended its 28-year stay at the Woodlands in 2002 before moving to the remote Redstone Golf Club in Humble, Texas. The Hardy-Jacobson course hosted the event during the tournament’s first three years at Redstone moving this year to Redstone’s Rees Jones layout.

The Rees Jones course, known as the Tournament Course, is a 7,481 yard par 72 design built with collaboration from Tour player David Toms. The course features MiniVerde greens and TifSport fairways. MiniVerde is a high shoot density grass that tolerates continuous close mowing and is a heat tolerant strain for the hot Houston summers. TifSport is another Bermuda hybrid that also tolerates the close mowing required for Tour courses and features rapid regeneration. The tournament tees play to a USGA rating of 75.8 and a slope rating of 138. The Tournament Course will be completely free of real estate development.

The list of winners at Houston reads like a brief history of golf as it includes historic figures like Byron Nelson, Bobby Locke, Arnold Palmer, and Gary Player. The list of multiple winners is quite lengthy and includes Vijay Singh (2002, 2004, 2005), Curtis Strange (1980, 1986, 1988), Arnold Palmer (1957, 1966), Bobby Nichols (1962, 1965), Jack Burke Jr. (1952, 1959), Mike Souchak (1955, 1964), Cary Middlecoff (1950, 1953), Joe Kirkwood Sr. (1923, 1924). FULL STORY