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Texas Children's Houston Open

2026-03-26 · Memorial Park Golf Course

Winner
Gary Woodland
Winning score
-21
Field
135
Field strength
-0.043 SG

The 2026 Texas Children's Houston Open was played at Memorial Park Golf Course, starting 26 March 2026. Gary Woodland won at 21 under par (259), 5 strokes ahead of Nicolai Højgaard. The winning card was 64, 63, 65 and 67, and the win paid $1,782,000. Nicolai Højgaard finished second, and Johnny Keefer and Min Woo Lee tied for third. 135 players started the event. The field averaged -0.043 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 87% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.

Final leaderboard

Top 20 of 135. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

Model score

Backtest · reconstructed

Our course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 75 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.191
Top-20 hit rate
30%
Top-10 avg model rank
27.5

Grade is this event’s percentile (22nd) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.

Who the model liked

Its top 10, and where they finished.

PlayerModelFinish
Ben Griffin1st28th
Sam Burns2nd21st
Harry Hall3rd28th
Kurt Kitayama4th60th
Shane Lowry5th28th
Keith Mitchell6th14th
Jake Knapp7th6th
Alex Smalley8th21st
Min Woo Lee9th3rd
Harris English10th21st

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Johnny Keefer70th3rd(67)
Adrien Dumont de Chassart75th12th(63)
Pontus Nyholm72nd14th(58)
Kurt Kitayama4th60th(+56)
Bronson Burgoon59th10th(49)
Karl Vilips67th19th(48)
Sudarshan Yellamaraju51st6th(45)
Matti Schmid30th74th(+44)
Zecheng Dou63rd21st(42)
Lee Hodges24th65th(+41)

One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.

The venue

This event was played at Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston, Texas, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Texas Children's Houston Open in 2026?

Gary Woodland won the 2026 Texas Children's Houston Open at Memorial Park Golf Course, finishing 21 under par.

Where was the 2026 Texas Children's Houston Open played?

The 2026 Texas Children's Houston Open was played at Memorial Park Golf Course, starting 26 March 2026.

What was the winning score at the 2026 Texas Children's Houston Open?

The winning score was 21 under par (259 strokes), posted by Gary Woodland.

How many players were in the Texas Children's Houston Open field?

135 players started the 2026 Texas Children's Houston Open. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.

Where these numbers come from

Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.